Roxolan comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Roxolan 14 March 2014 04:25:45PM 6 points [-]

In Ancient Greece, while wandering on the road, every day one either encounters a beggar or a god.

If it's an iterated game, then the decision to pay is a lot less unintuitive.