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Nisan comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 3 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Nisan 08 July 2012 12:16:17AM 14 points [-]

The fact that I can reliably multiply numbers shows that at least some of my decisions are deterministic.

To the extent that I make ethical decisions based on some partially deterministic reasoning process, my ethical decisions are not chaotic.

If, due to chaos, I have a probability p of slapping my friends instead of hugging them, then Laplace's law of succession tells me that p is less than 1%.