Thomas comments on The Noddy problem - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Apprentice 12 January 2012 10:18PM

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Comment author: Thomas 13 January 2012 03:33:19PM 30 points [-]

JERRY (SEINFELD): I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I'm Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. 'What about getting up after five hours sleep?', oh that's Morning Guy's problem. That's not my problem, I'm Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want. So you get up in the morning, you're ..... (?), you're exhausted, groggy, oooh I hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There's nothing Morning Guy can do. The only Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy looses his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore.

You can punish and intimidate your future self, as you can see.

Comment author: humpolec 16 January 2012 10:42:28PM 2 points [-]

What about your past self? If Night Guy can predict what Morning Guy will do, Morning Guy is effectively threatening his past self.