Alexei comments on Tendencies in reflective equilibrium - LessWrong

27 Post author: Yvain 20 July 2011 10:38AM

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Comment author: JGWeissman 20 July 2011 08:49:37PM 2 points [-]

If you want to not just be consistant, but consistantly reflect your preferences (or reflective equilibrium of tendencies), you should validate your framework against a wide range of hypotheticals in the domain before actually using it in the specific case that prompted you to create it.

(Or try to meet the higher criteria of consistancy, not just that you judgments on a sequence of situations are consistant with each other, but that they are also consistant with the judgements made by a copy of you who sees the situations in a different order.)

Comment author: Alexei 20 July 2011 10:09:24PM 1 point [-]

Absolutely. You start with a framework of reasoning and you make it less wrong. :)