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Decius comments on Smoking lesion as a counterexample to CDT - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 26 October 2012 12:08PM

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Comment author: Decius 31 October 2012 03:18:38PM 0 points [-]

Well, it's just as easy as varying smoking directly, which would also work to identify a smoking->cancer effect.

Without experimentation, there is no way to distinguish between the world of smoker's lesion and the world of carcinogenic cigarettes.