Quarkster comments on Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 July 2008 10:16AM

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Comment author: Quarkster 30 November 2009 11:58:09PM -2 points [-]

I don't see how it would be possible to draw conclusions about the future without assuming that the future will be like the past on the most stable level of organization can be identified. If this assumptions allows us to draw conclusions where they could not otherwise be drawn, isn't that winning?