Amanojack comments on Righting a Wrong Question - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Amanojack 16 March 2010 05:15:34AM 1 point [-]

It sounds like you trusted the judgment of your earlier self (or a subconscious subroutine) to have grabbed the right item, but there was a glitch. This reminds me of those dreams where it's a given that "you" have already made a major decision in the dream, but it happened in the past (before you entered the dream world) so you had no control over it. That's one terrible feeling, if the decision was a bad one.