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50 Post author: Wei_Dai 13 August 2009 05:31AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 August 2009 06:57:14PM *  1 point [-]

The fact that you said it would take a long series of posts to explain your idea threw me off, and I was kind of surprised when you said congratulations

"Decide as though your decision is about the output of a Platonic computation" is the key insight that started me off - not the only idea - and considering how long philosophers have wrangled this, there's the whole edifice of justification that would be needed for a serious exposition. Maybe come Aug 26th or thereabouts I'll post a very quick summary of e.g. integration with Pearl's causality.