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Comment author: torekp 24 December 2015 06:41:05PM 1 point [-]

Righting a Wrong Question is indeed a great trick, but not so simple. It can take a lot of tries to get a right question. You can even, sometimes, make things worse when you try to replace one set of terms (e.g., about external world events) with another allegedly more epistemically primitive set (e.g., about subjective perceptions). Philosophy is a bitch.

Comment author: username2 25 December 2015 02:39:05PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. Suppose we select a random bunch of questions and do that. Are we likely to make things better or worse? Was Eliezer's example specifically chosen to make it work? I have no idea.