Nanashi comments on Self-verification - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Nanashi 19 April 2015 11:36PM

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Comment author: oge 25 April 2015 03:45:00AM 1 point [-]

Could you please explain what motivated you to ask this question? It'd help motivate me to play the game...

Comment author: Nanashi 25 April 2015 08:49:24PM 2 points [-]

Specifically, I planned on imagining what my response would be if I found a message supposedly "from myself" that was transmitted using one of these methods. How likely would I be to truly integrate into my identity this event of which I have no memory?

Comment author: ilzolende 28 April 2015 12:54:25AM 2 points [-]

I would probably believe something signed with my own PGP key enough to thoroughly investigate it. If I found something packaged with a blood sample I probably would not be willing to pay to check the sample, because I'm a minor and the costs of testing a DNA sample are something like a year of income for me. Since I wouldn't verify the sample I would probably take the message about as seriously as I'd take anything else in my own handwriting with my signature, which is to say I'd put in several hours of effort but not much more unless I found confirming evidence. If I found a video of myself saying things, accompanied by a PGP sig and a PGP-signed transcript, which did not include any subtle signals of coercion that I could have potentially sent, I'd be very confident.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 26 April 2015 09:12:30AM 2 points [-]

Have you ever read your own diary from fifty years previously? :)

Comment author: Nanashi 26 April 2015 07:24:24PM 2 points [-]

Given that I'm 29, I think that would be spectacularly bewildering.

Comment author: Unknowns 26 April 2015 09:29:44AM 1 point [-]

From thirty years ago. Amazingly boring.