Upon a few minutes of reflection, I’ve decided that it wouldn’t technically be logically impossible for me to not be aware that I can edit my posts. At first I thought that any person who can contribute to LessWrong for two years without realizing that they can edit their posts simply couldn’t be me in any possible world. But it’s true that weirdly specific brain damage or supernatural influence could in fact make it happen while leaving my identity intact. I have a stricter sense of logical possibility than most, but I guess I’ll cordon off that debate for some other time.
You are aware that you can edit your posts? Such as fixing terminological errors.
Upon a few minutes of reflection, I’ve decided that it wouldn’t technically be logically impossible for me to not be aware that I can edit my posts. At first I thought that any person who can contribute to LessWrong for two years without realizing that they can edit their posts simply couldn’t be me in any possible world. But it’s true that weirdly specific brain damage or supernatural influence could in fact make it happen while leaving my identity intact. I have a stricter sense of logical possibility than most, but I guess I’ll cordon off that debate for some other time.
Um anyway yeah I’m aware.
Then why didn’t you fix the error rather than delete the post?
It was a bad post overall. Also the terminological error was rather embarrassing so I wanted to erase it as quickly as possible.