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RichardKennaway comments on Open Thread, October 7 - October 12, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 13 October 2013 04:06:28PM 1 point [-]

And outside of the justice system, everyone is free to use whatever data they have to update their beliefs and actions in whatever way seems justified by the data.

No they aren't.

You are referring to the contingencies of this and that legal system. I am referring to the rational obligation to properly update on observations. As I said, a theme of this site on occasion, but apparently not on the occasion of your post.

Presumably you get the knowledge about the second word in the phrase from the same place you got the knowledge about the first word in the phrase. It does not seem to be a particularly unbelievable claim.

I am quite willing to believe that there are those with pedophile inclinations who have never acted on them. What I am taking issue with it the idea that "celibate pedophile" is a natural cluster of things, any more than "drunk drivers who have not had accidents". That is why I have called it a supposed class, not because I think it is empty.