Cameron_Taylor comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MBlume 19 March 2009 07:44:07AM 34 points [-]

Had the coin come up differently, Omega might have explained the secrets of friendly artificial general intelligence. However, he now asks that you murder 15 people.

Omega remains completely trustworthy, if a bit sick.

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Comment author: MBlume 19 March 2009 11:13:28AM 1 point [-]

I'll note that the assumption that I trust the Omega up to stakes this high is a big one

Completely agreed, a major problem in any realistic application of such scenarios.

I imagine that the alterations being done to my brain in the counterfactualisation process would have rather widespread implications on many of my thought processes and beliefs once I had time to process it.

I'm afraid I don't follow.

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