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billswift comments on Greg Egan disses stand-ins for Overcoming Bias, SIAI in new book - Less Wrong Discussion

35 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 07 October 2010 06:55AM

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Comment author: billswift 30 October 2010 06:23:21PM 9 points [-]

Simply? Making firm commitments at all, especially commitments believable by random others, is a hard problem. I just finished reading Schelling's Strategies of Commitment so the issue is at the top of my mind right now.