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68 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 August 2007 03:55PM

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Comment author: Unknown 07 February 2008 07:15:18PM 3 points [-]

I'll modify my advice. If the probability that "I do action A in order to increase my subjective probability of position P" is greater given P than given not P, then doing A in order to increase my subjective probability of position P will be evidence in favor of P.

So in many cases, there will such a plan that I can devise. Let's see Eliezer find a way out of this one.