lucidfox comments on You're in Newcomb's Box - Less Wrong

40 Post author: HonoreDB 05 February 2011 08:46PM

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Comment author: lucidfox 01 February 2011 08:50:29AM 6 points [-]

Azathoth wants you to maximize your number of descendants; if you fail to have descendants, Azathoth will try not to have created you.

It sure is welcome to try now that I've precommitted to never have children.

(On a silly note, this gave me a mental image of a time-traveling God of Evolution who meddles with the past to achieve desired results in the present. shudder)