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Larks comments on Discussion for Eliezer Yudkowsky's paper: Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Larks 06 January 2011 01:20:22AM 0 points [-]

That would be quite important! =)

Does he need to precommit to chew gum? I haven't read the doc. in months, but I don't recall their being any danger of temporal inconsistancy in that case.

Comment author: Alexei 06 January 2011 02:14:19AM 0 points [-]

No he doesn't. Eliezer compares this version of Solomon's problem to the Newcomb's problem, where precommitment actually makes a difference.