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2Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
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Beware when you find yourself arguing that a policy is defensible rather than optimal; or that it has some benefit compared to the null action, rather than the best benefit of any action.

—The Third Alternative

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  • The Third Alternative by Eliezer Yudkowsky

See also

  • Third option
  • Arguments as soldiers
  • Not technically a lie
Posts tagged Defensibility
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133The Third Alternative
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
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14Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled
Benquo
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9[SEQ RERUN] The Third Alternative
badger
12y
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3(Religion/Atheist) - Reppert on the Defeasibility Test (No (conclusive) evidence possible for a being both all-powerful and honest)
Bound_up
6y
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25Double-negation as framing
Stuart Johnson
1mo
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6Rational Defense of Irrational Beliefs
cleonid
14y
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