timtyler comments on Morality as Parfitian-filtered Decision Theory? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 31 August 2010 11:25:29PM 0 points [-]

he incredible thing isn't that Omega is accurate. It is that his "predictions" are influenced (acausaly?) by future events.

You mean that he predicts future events? That is sometimes possible to do - in cases where they are reasonbly-well determined by the current situation.