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Mon, 04 Aug 2014 10:43:26 GMT

If there was a way to differentiate hallucinations from real vision, then I'd agree, but there isn't.

Anyway, I thought of a (seemingly) knockdown argument for not believing future selves: what if you currently believe at 50% that tomorrow you'll be convinced of 2+2=3, the next day 2+2=5, and the next day 2+2=6? (And that it only has one answer.) If you just blindly took those as minimums, then your total probability mass would be at least 150%. Therefore, you can only trust your current self.

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