hmm… Which part of that is a counterfactual conditional statement, as in, a statement of the form ” If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over”?
The regular counterfactual part as I understand it is: ”If I ignore threats, people won’t send me threats” “I am an agent who ignores threats” ”I have observed myself recieve a threat” You can at most pick 2, but FDT needs all 3 to justify that it should ignoring it. It wants to say “If I were someone who responds to threats when I get them, then I’ll get threats, so instead I’ll be someone who refuses threats when I get threats so I don’t get threats” but what you do inside of logically impossible situations isn’t well defined.
The logical counterfactual part is this: ”What would the world be like if f(x)=b instead of a?” specifically, FDT requires asking what you’d expect things to be like if FDT outputted different results, and then it outputs the result where you say the world would be best if it outputted that result. The contradictions here is that you can prove what FDT outputs, and so prove that it doesn’t actually output all the other results, and the question again isn’t well defined.
hmm… Which part of that is a counterfactual conditional statement, as in, a statement of the form ” If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over”?
The regular counterfactual part as I understand it is:
”If I ignore threats, people won’t send me threats”
“I am an agent who ignores threats”
”I have observed myself recieve a threat”
You can at most pick 2, but FDT needs all 3 to justify that it should ignoring it.
It wants to say “If I were someone who responds to threats when I get them, then I’ll get threats, so instead I’ll be someone who refuses threats when I get threats so I don’t get threats” but what you do inside of logically impossible situations isn’t well defined.
The logical counterfactual part is this:
”What would the world be like if f(x)=b instead of a?”
specifically, FDT requires asking what you’d expect things to be like if FDT outputted different results, and then it outputs the result where you say the world would be best if it outputted that result. The contradictions here is that you can prove what FDT outputs, and so prove that it doesn’t actually output all the other results, and the question again isn’t well defined.