gwern comments on Vote Qualifications, Not Issues - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clippy 27 September 2010 02:53:26PM 2 points [-]

When a being is submitting a threat, through an audio-only channel, to destroy paperclips if you don't do X, when that being prefers you doing X to destroying paperclips.

(The example generalizes to cases where you have a preference for something else instead of quantity of existent paperclips.)

Comment author: gwern 27 September 2010 03:01:25PM 0 points [-]

/handwaves appeal to UDT/TDT/CDT/*DT

And by allowing yourself to remain deaf, you have defected and acausally forced other beings to defect, rendering you worse off.

Comment author: Clippy 27 September 2010 03:13:05PM 2 points [-]

Wakarimasen.

Comment author: gwern 27 September 2010 03:24:30PM 2 points [-]

I don't understand.

Comment author: Clippy 27 September 2010 03:42:07PM 3 points [-]

Exactly.