Another lesson I think it teaches is it is easy to get caught up in long, drawn out debates about positions that are nearly impossible to conclusively refute (think theism).
Recced because it is funny and relevant, I am actually quite enjoying the Chigurh quotes. Although I am tired of Will always bringing in Catholic stuff. :)
That question has some surprising correlations more generally (at least for someone who’s been trained to cluster LW positions together into a natural set.)
Craig modifies the thought experiment by introducing operations such as subtraction and shows that subtracting identical quantities from identical quantities would have non-identical remainders.[9] Since we have no evidence of such things in the actual world
Yeah, this is what I had in mind.
Another lesson I think it teaches is it is easy to get caught up in long, drawn out debates about positions that are nearly impossible to conclusively refute (think theism).
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Fun fact: William Lane Craig has rigorously argued that it’s best to one-box on Newcomb’s problem.
— Anton Chigurh
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Recced because it is funny and relevant, I am actually quite enjoying the Chigurh quotes. Although I am tired of Will always bringing in Catholic stuff. :)
Lane Craig isn’t Catholic, and I didn’t bring him up.
That question has some surprising correlations more generally (at least for someone who’s been trained to cluster LW positions together into a natural set.)
Reversed Stupidity is Not Intelligence
At best, don’t do that for the same reasons he did—but even there I’m sure that he’s right even on the reasoning some of the time.
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I hadn’t heard of him before. [follows the link]
Don’t we?