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

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Comment author: fortyeridania 12 October 2011 03:36:39PM 0 points [-]

Hide the coin somewhere else

Hmmm...But don't the rules (especially as clarified here) specify that your future self will be able replicate any chain of reasoning you use? I doubt a trick like this would work, for the same reason any ordinary hiding place wouldn't work: Your future self would retrace your cognitive steps.