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Will_Newsome comments on r/HPMOR on heroic responsibility - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 August 2012 11:08AM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 22 August 2012 02:33:14AM *  0 points [-]

It's not like Solomonoff Induction where sometimes you really can be helped by thinking formally about Occam's Razor. In practice, human beings arguing about ethics are either already approximating their part of the 'good' as best they can, or they're confused about something much simpler than CEV, like consequentialism.

It's exactly like Solomonoff Induction where most of the time you really can't be helped by thinking formally about Occam's Razor. In practice, human beings arguing about probabilities are either already approximating their part of the 'simple' as best they can, or they're confused about something much simpler (haha) than Solomonoff Induction, like Bayesianism.