Alicorn comments on The ideas you're not ready to post - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 20 April 2009 02:59:54PM 1 point [-]

Well, that's one of my many issues with the principle - it's practically useless, except in situations that it has to be formulated specifically to avoid. For instance, if you plan to get drunk, you might know that you'll consider yourself a safe driver while you are (in the future) drunk, but that doesn't mean you should now consider your future, drunk self a safe driver. Sophisticated statements of Reflection explicitly avoid situations like this.