MBlume comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 01 April 2009 08:54:45PM 2 points [-]

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

Is that an acceptable correction?

Comment author: MBlume 02 April 2009 12:25:56AM 6 points [-]

Well, with a being like Omega running around, the two become more or less identical.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 02 April 2009 03:24:04AM 3 points [-]

If we're going to invent someone who can read thoughts perfectly, we may as well invent someone who can conceal thoughts perfectly.

Anyway, there aren't any beings like Omega running around to my knowledge. If you think that concealing motivations is harder than I think, and that the only way to make another human think you're a certain way is to be that way, say that.