MichaelVassar comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 March 2009 07:49:43PM 18 points [-]

If you want to be the sort of person who'll do X given Y, then when Y turns up, you'd better bloody well do X.

Well said. That's a lot of the motivation behind my choice of decision theory in a nutshell.

Comment author: MBlume 21 March 2009 04:04:17AM 8 points [-]

Thanks, it's good to know I'm on the right track =)

I think this core insight is one of the clearest changes in my thought process since starting to read OB/LW -- I can't imagine myself leaping to "well, I'd hand him $100, of course" a couple years ago.

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