MBlume comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 March 2009 06:08AM

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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.