Psychohistorian comments on Hypothetical Paradoxes - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Psychohistorian 19 September 2009 06:28AM

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 19 September 2009 05:34:38PM 1 point [-]

This is correct; that sentence did not fit in well with the rest of the point and has been amended accordingly. The assumptions necessary to use Newcomb's to refute CDT are paradoxical; the hypothetical itself is not, though we are very much prone to think of it incorrectly, because naive free will is so basic to our intuition.