gwern comments on Rationality Quotes June 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 01 July 2014 10:10:23PM 4 points [-]

The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn’t think they’re being followed.

Does that actually work?

Comment author: ike 04 July 2014 11:38:30AM 2 points [-]

Ask yourself whether you'd notice someone following you when you weren't looking out for it.

The part that impressed me and led me to post it was the whole "X applies to everyone else, hmm maybe it applies to me too" idea.

Comment author: gwern 04 July 2014 09:05:00PM 3 points [-]

But how would I distinguish 'no one has been following me and so I did not notice no one has been following me' from 'someone has followed me at some point and I did not notice that they were following me'?

Comment author: MarkusRamikin 02 July 2014 06:46:08AM 0 points [-]

No.