magfrump comments on The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: magfrump 19 January 2010 04:33:58PM 1 point [-]

Sorry to sound crankish. Rather than "simple and inconsistent" I might have said that there were contrived and thus unanswerable questions. Regardless it distracted and I shouldn't have digressed at all.

Anyway thank you for the good answer concerning hypotheticals.