Will_Sawin comments on Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting - Less Wrong

142 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 January 2011 12:15AM

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 03 January 2011 08:35:25PM 1 point [-]

Correct, I'm wrong.

It seems like "I want to work someday" is almost not the kind of statement we should use in describing people's desires at all. It doesn't actually say anything about how you'd respond to any choices. If it did you could find a way to dutchbook.

Comment author: Clippy 03 January 2011 09:04:12PM 0 points [-]

I think you are partially correct in that the problem is ambiguous with respect to some deciding factors -- specfically, the agent's inferential capabilities -- and that there are disambiguations that make your method work. See my reply to User:Perplexed.

Comment author: Perplexed 03 January 2011 08:52:37PM 0 points [-]

100% agreement.