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

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 October 2011 07:42:58AM *  0 points [-]

You could eliminate those risky locations by excluding them as alternatives in your randomization process, but that would mean including a chain of reasoning!

Do I know that while I was trying to hide the coin I tought I would lose if I found it later?

Edit: Gwern said it first.

(You also don't formulate it right. If the memory-wiped self is told that finding the coin wins, and also that a former self placed the coin for him to find, wouldn't he infer that his former self would be trying to help him win and so would begin his search at a Schelling point? He wouldn't even consider trying to beat an adversarial strategy like 'randomize' because he doesn't think there's an adversary!)