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Comment author: Anonymous9155 15 September 2011 02:56:22AM 2 points [-]

How can humans make precommitments?

We can't.

Posted under a throwaway account to avoid impairing my ability to pretend to make precommitments that I'm not actually guaranteed to follow.

Comment author: pedanterrific 15 September 2011 03:03:33AM 1 point [-]

Agree, except I'm not concerned with preserving my ability to give obviously false promises.