Curious. I was arguing motivation for study of TDT/UDT/ADT, without betraying any knowledge about results that are already known. And you’ve managed to rule out all combinations of confusions these theories are intended to resolve as being irrelevant. The general pattern I see here is that any individual question has an “obvious” intuitive answer, especially if you don’t go into detail, and you refuse to either consider multiple questions at once (since they are “unrelated”), or to go deeply enough into each of them individually (since if you assume the intuitive understanding of the other questions, they provide strong enough support for not being confused about this one too).
In other words, you are trapped in the net of intuitive understanding of multiple concepts that help in understanding each other, and are comfortable with this level of understanding, which makes any attempt to look deeper into their nature preposterous to you.
You were arguing from a position whereby you couldn’t tell the difference between the statements “If I had precommitted to not give into blackmail I wouldn’t have been blackmailed” and “If I had precommitted to call upon the FSM for help, the FSM would exist”
That is a very confused position. I have since explained the difference between those things.
Every confusion you have actually brought to the fore, I have clarified; with the exception of the confusion of “what makes personal identity”; because that wasn’t the topic at hand. It’s a big and complicated, and seperable, issue. And yes, the personal identity issue leads to some changes in decision theory. But we’re not talking about decision theory at the moment.
If you think I haven’t clarified one of your confusions, please point it out? Because, honestly, you seem to be just plain ignoring any attempts at clarification.
Because, honestly, you seem to be just plain ignoring any attempts at clarification.
Informal, intuitive attempts at clarifications. Attempts at clarification that don’t give deep understanding of what’s going on. The standard of understanding I was aiming at, in particular by refusing to accept less formal explanations.
So you say, but you don’t point out any difficulty with them.
You simply dismiss them like that.
Your confusions are faux-logical (talking about worlds being logically impossible, when they’re not; talking about the principle of explosion, when it doesn’t apply); if you want a thorough clarification, give a thorough problem.
Curious. I was arguing motivation for study of TDT/UDT/ADT, without betraying any knowledge about results that are already known. And you’ve managed to rule out all combinations of confusions these theories are intended to resolve as being irrelevant. The general pattern I see here is that any individual question has an “obvious” intuitive answer, especially if you don’t go into detail, and you refuse to either consider multiple questions at once (since they are “unrelated”), or to go deeply enough into each of them individually (since if you assume the intuitive understanding of the other questions, they provide strong enough support for not being confused about this one too).
In other words, you are trapped in the net of intuitive understanding of multiple concepts that help in understanding each other, and are comfortable with this level of understanding, which makes any attempt to look deeper into their nature preposterous to you.
You were arguing from a position whereby you couldn’t tell the difference between the statements “If I had precommitted to not give into blackmail I wouldn’t have been blackmailed” and “If I had precommitted to call upon the FSM for help, the FSM would exist”
That is a very confused position. I have since explained the difference between those things.
Every confusion you have actually brought to the fore, I have clarified; with the exception of the confusion of “what makes personal identity”; because that wasn’t the topic at hand. It’s a big and complicated, and seperable, issue. And yes, the personal identity issue leads to some changes in decision theory. But we’re not talking about decision theory at the moment.
If you think I haven’t clarified one of your confusions, please point it out? Because, honestly, you seem to be just plain ignoring any attempts at clarification.
Informal, intuitive attempts at clarifications. Attempts at clarification that don’t give deep understanding of what’s going on. The standard of understanding I was aiming at, in particular by refusing to accept less formal explanations.
So you say, but you don’t point out any difficulty with them.
You simply dismiss them like that.
Your confusions are faux-logical (talking about worlds being logically impossible, when they’re not; talking about the principle of explosion, when it doesn’t apply); if you want a thorough clarification, give a thorough problem.