From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 24 2003 - 08:10:44 MDT
On 6/23/2003, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>>>>... Most of the "disagreements" on the list are not really disagreements.
>>>>Different people have different data or assign different values.
>>>>Most of the facts themselves are not in dispute. ...
>
>I disagreed that "the facts themselves are not in dispute" and that
>disputes derive from assigning different values. It seems to me that much
>of the disputation derives from disagreement on facts, and the remainder
>from differences on values that are perceived as disagreements and on
>which people would not agree to disagree. Little of it appears to be
>genuinely "assigning different" values.
I agree with Eliezer; most disagreements on this list are not on their face
people declaring different values. That may be the real cause behind the
scenes, but the actual statements that people dispute seem to mostly be
statements about which of many possible worlds the actual world is.
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