Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 March 2009 07:51:42PM 8 points [-]

ETA2: "What would you do in situation X?" and "What would you like to pre-commit to doing, should you ever encounter situation X?" should, to a rational agent, be one and the same question.

...and that's an even better way of putting it.