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army1987 comments on Empirical claims, preference claims, and attitude claims - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 15 November 2012 07:41PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 November 2012 09:20:59PM *  0 points [-]

Of course, the reason why how much X1 likes Y is correlated with how much X2 likes Y is not telepathy -- it's that certain causal influences act on both. So, even if you know how much Xi likes Y for all i, there are questions left to ask.