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28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 June 2008 04:15AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 September 2013 02:18:52PM 3 points [-]

And the child-Eliezer asked his mind to search for arguments that there was a chocolate cake in the asteroid belt. Lo, his mind returned the reply: "Since the asteroid-belt-chocolate-cake is one of the classic examples of a bad hypothesis, if anyone ever invents a time machine, some prankster will toss a chocolate cake back into the 20th-century asteroid belt, making it true all along."

Worse still, it will be someone who didn't come up with the idea on their own but rather read this OB/LW post and decided to do that.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 September 2013 05:17:25PM 3 points [-]

Still not worried.