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Psychosmurf comments on The self-fooling problem. - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: PuyaSharif 10 October 2011 10:26PM

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Comment author: Psychosmurf 11 October 2011 12:18:52AM 6 points [-]

Are you allowed to use someone else's brain? If so, you could ask them to hide it.

Comment author: VincentYu 12 October 2011 09:02:56PM 5 points [-]

Easy - just build a seed AI whose only goal is to prevent your future self from finding the coin, and let it FOOM.

Surely nothing can go wrong.

Comment author: Alejandro1 12 October 2011 11:14:37PM 3 points [-]

In short: Solve the self-fooling problem by replacing it with a self-FOOMing problem.

Comment author: dlthomas 12 October 2011 11:34:57PM 2 points [-]

It's only a one-bit change (if we keep to lowercase)...

Comment author: VincentYu 13 October 2011 12:25:41AM 2 points [-]

Yep. Just a bit of change in how you hide a bit of change.

Yet another bit of change.

Comment author: eugman 12 October 2011 09:08:04PM 1 point [-]

God, this made me do a stereotypical chuck and head backtilt. You win.