One of the ways to be more correct is to use frameworks of reasoning rather than your intuition. When you see a question like: “What sounds like a fair punishment for a homeless man who steals $1,000?”, you should quickly create a framework for answering questions like that. Yvain’s example for that kind of framework is “jail time = (10 * amount stolen)/net worth”. This significantly helps to anyone be more consistent.
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.)
One of the ways to be more correct is to use frameworks of reasoning rather than your intuition. When you see a question like: “What sounds like a fair punishment for a homeless man who steals $1,000?”, you should quickly create a framework for answering questions like that. Yvain’s example for that kind of framework is “jail time = (10 * amount stolen)/net worth”. This significantly helps to anyone be more consistent.
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.)
It’s “consistent”.
At least I spelled it the same way every time ;)
Absolutely. You start with a framework of reasoning and you make it less wrong. :)