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kokotajlod comments on Irrationality Game III - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: CellBioGuy 12 March 2014 01:51PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 March 2014 03:15:40AM 0 points [-]

Taboo “I”. For all the ways of interpreting that claim that I can come up with, I'd give a probability either much, much higher or much, much lower than 50%.

Comment author: kokotajlod 17 March 2014 04:35:05PM 1 point [-]

Could you list the ways? I'm interested to hear which ways you think would give a probability much higher than 50%.

Also, telling me to taboo "I" is telling me to give a successful analysis of consciousness; if I could already do that, I wouldn't assign 50% probability to it being one thing, and 50% probability to it being another.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 March 2014 07:33:13AM 0 points [-]

I mean, sometimes by the word “I” I mean my System 2 (as in “I'm not sure what the effect of stricter gun control on the homicide rate would be”), sometimes I mean my System 1 (as in “I'm not scared of spiders”), sometimes I mean my body (as in “I've got a backache”), sometimes I mean my car (as in “I'm parked over there”), etc. Which one did you mean there?

...Oh. Now I can see a reasonable non-tautological, non-tautologically false interpretation of your entry.