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13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 February 2009 08:15PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 28 February 2009 02:19:52AM 2 points [-]

Prices or Bindings? and to a lesser extent (although with simpler formal statement) Newcomb's Problem and The True Prisoner's Dilemma: show just how insanely alien the rational thing can be, even if it's directed to your own cause. You may need to conscientiously avoid preventing the world destruction, not take free money, and trade a billion human lives for one paperclip.