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khafra comments on How can humans make precommitments? - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Incorrect 15 September 2011 01:19AM

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Comment author: khafra 16 September 2011 02:05:17PM 1 point [-]

Also, rip the steering wheel off and chug a fifth of whisky.

Comment author: Manfred 16 September 2011 02:39:39PM 0 points [-]

True. But this is only good as a straight commitment, not a conditional commitment, which is what's necessary for most kinds of coercion.