orthonormal comments on Open Thread September, Part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 02 October 2010 11:30:49PM *  4 points [-]

One intuition pump: if someone else forced you to chew gum, this wouldn't have any bearing on whether you have CGTA, and it would lower your chances of abcess in either case, and so you'd be glad they'd done so. However, if someone else forced you to two-box, you'd be quite angry at having missed out on the million dollars.