DanielLC comments on Open Thread, Apr. 20 - Apr. 26, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 21 April 2015 10:37:10PM -1 points [-]

It doesn't matter if they're in fact just predicting, since you can easily convince the cops that they're threatening.

Comment author: DanielLC 21 April 2015 11:13:12PM 0 points [-]

They convinced you they were predicting. Presumably they can convince the cops as well. Perhaps it's well-established that they're an oracle after they made all that money on the stock market. Then they went into oracle mugging after it was declared insider trading.

Comment author: ChristianKl 22 April 2015 12:02:16PM 0 points [-]

The fact that the oracle made money on the stock market in no way implies that there wasn't a causal relationship between the actions of the oracle and future price movements.