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DanielLC comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanielLC 07 September 2012 04:40:12AM 0 points [-]

That presupposes that P(Bob came back) is not affected by your decision to send the information further on.

No. I gave an example in which it was not decided to send information back. It's simply impossible to go back in time without proving that you weren't killed by a time-travelling assassin.