Luke_A_Somers comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 June 2012 10:53:38AM -1 points [-]

By reading the quantum coin flip, you definitely entangle yourself with it, and there's no way you're going to stay coherent.

As a hard-core Everettian, I find the original usage and the followup totally unobjectionable in principle. Your clarification was good except for the part where it said Ati's statement was wrong. There exists a reading of the terms which leaves those wrong, yes. So don't use that one.