RobinZ comments on Rationality Quotes—August 2009

RobinZ 6 Aug 2009 13:05 UTC
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No one has ever announced that because determinism is true thermostats do not control temperature.

Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations, qtd. in Daniel Dennett, Elbow Room
- AllanCrossman 6 Aug 2009 13:56 UTC
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  But what thermostats don’t control is… what the thermostat is set to.
  - Richard_Kennaway 6 Aug 2009 14:16 UTC
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    But what thermostats don’t control is… what the thermostat is set to.
    
    Another control system does that. The chain tops out somewhere, of course.
    - Eliezer Yudkowsky 6 Aug 2009 16:44 UTC
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      Allan didn’t say otherwise.
      - Tyrrell_McAllister 6 Aug 2009 17:13 UTC
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        Richard didn’t say otherwise.
        AllanCrossman 6 Aug 2009 18:45 UTC
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        Eliezer didn’t say… oh sod it.