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Jiro comments on Blackmail, continued: communal blackmail, uncoordinated responses - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 October 2014 05:53PM

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Comment author: Jiro 25 October 2014 08:53:38PM 0 points [-]

That's the point of formalizing intuitions. He has a preexisting category, and he's trying to find the rule which formally describes what goes in the category. In order to do that you have to take for granted that certain things are and aren't in the category. If you didn't have a preexisting caregory there would be no reason to do it.