Jonathan_Graehl comments on The Absent-Minded Driver - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Wei_Dai 16 September 2009 12:51AM

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Comment author: taw 16 September 2009 02:49:44AM 39 points [-]

You cannot assume any α, and choose p based on it, for α depends on p. You just introduced a time loop into your example.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 17 September 2009 12:05:50AM 0 points [-]

The paper covered that, but good point.