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TheAncientGeek comments on Philosophical schools are approaches not positions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 14 October 2015 09:08:13AM 1 point [-]

It is a mistake to think that the exact repetition of circumstances is the only thing that could make CHDO matter. In the absence of FW, all decisions are equally inevitable, and the future happens as it must, so there is no criterion for identifying an important decisions. Given FW, different alternate futures pivot on decisions made at a point in time.