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[SEQ RERUN] Righting a Wrong Question

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22nd Feb 2012
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Today's post, Righting a Wrong Question was originally published on 09 March 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

 

When you are faced with an unanswerable question - a question to which it seems impossible to even imagine an answer - there is a simple trick which can turn the question solvable. Instead of asking, "Why do I have free will?", try asking, "Why do I think I have free will?"


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This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, where we'll be going through Eliezer Yudkowsky's old posts in order so that people who are interested can (re-)read and discuss them. The previous post was Wrong Questions, and you can use the sequence_reruns tag or rss feed to follow the rest of the series.

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