wedrifid comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong
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No it isn't. Your 'Take 2' is an entirely different question. One that seems to miss the point. The question "Can Omega exploit a vulnerability of human psychology?" isn't a particularly interesting one and becomes even less so when by the definition of Omega and the problem specification the answer is either "Yes" or "I deny the counterfactual" regardless of anything to do with vulnerabilities in human intellectual capabilities.
oh. whoops.... so more like a way of poking holes in the strategy "i will do whatever I would have precommitted to do"?
A way of trying to, yes.