Yeah, my explanation is that the author is confused and has put together a set of examples which don’t cleave reality at the joints. Thus, many of the examples just don’t hang together as making the same point.
See TeaTieAndHat’s comment here, and my response: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vyAZyYh3qsqcJwwPn/conditional-on-getting-to-trade-your-trade-might-not-have?commentId=pfiZEQ8GmdRJje4x3
Yeah, my explanation is that the author is confused and has put together a set of examples which don’t cleave reality at the joints. Thus, many of the examples just don’t hang together as making the same point.
See TeaTieAndHat’s comment here, and my response: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vyAZyYh3qsqcJwwPn/conditional-on-getting-to-trade-your-trade-might-not-have?commentId=pfiZEQ8GmdRJje4x3