Cyan comments on Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 August 2009 01:10AM

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Comment author: timtyler 20 August 2009 05:55:17AM -2 points [-]

What - and have them so they don't trigger even on outrageous falsehoods? That sounds as though it would be a dubious plan. Isn't determining when people are lying to you an important skill? I can put up with a few false positives - and that seems preferable to missing deceptions.

Comment author: Cyan 20 August 2009 06:32:17PM 2 points [-]

What - and have them so they don't trigger even on outrageous falsehoods?

Maybe just so they don't trigger on outrageous counterfactuals.