Annoyance comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: taw 19 March 2009 11:02:14AM 11 points [-]

I really fail to see why you're all so fascinated by Newcomb-like problems. When you break causality, all logic based on causality doesn't function any more. If you try to model it mathematically, you will get inconsistent model always.

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Comment author: Annoyance 21 March 2009 03:48:00PM 3 points [-]

On second thoughts, since many clever philosophers spend careers on these problems, I may be missing something.

Nah, they just need something to talk about.