Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 April 2009 01:15:51PM 5 points [-]

If you would have given Omega the $100, No-mega gives you nothing. If you would not have given Omega $100, No-mega gives you $10000. No-mega doesn't ask you any questions or offer you any choices. Do you get the money? Would an ideal rationalist get the money?

I would have no actionable suspicion that I should give Omega the $100 unless I knew about No-mega. So I get the $10000 only if No-mega asks the question "What would Eliezer do knowing about No-mega?" and not if No-mega asks the question "What would Eliezer do not knowing about No-mega?"