“Wrong-way reductions” are a fallacy only smart people fall into: turning a messy tractable problem into a tidy impossible one.
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We have total technical certainty that this cannot be done, but it’s still somehow an attractor in idea-space for a certain type of geek.
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More-pertinent examples of wrong-way reductions: ethical utilitarianism; divine-command ethics; Bayesianism as general epistemology; etc.
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@Meaningness count the legs and then divide by four -
@sarahdoingthing eh? (jet lagged, sorry, slow on uptake here?) - 2 more replies
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