SforSingularity comments on You have just been Counterfactually Mugged! - Less Wrong
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Few will care about a silly comment on one post, especially given the context. Anybody using it as ammunition will look really petty.
Better ammunition:"But when Eliezer was counterfactually mugged, he didn't pay. How serious is he on his decision theory?"
Even if the procedural problems here give him a good reason not to 'pay', paying is better rhetorically. (though he may clarify that he won't pay under similarly sloppy conditions again.)
it would all be more clear-cut if the amounts involved were a few hundred $. But yes, good point.