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Decius comments on Think Like a Supervillain - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 20 February 2013 08:34AM

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Comment author: Decius 21 February 2013 12:08:28AM 1 point [-]

By definition, either you trivially are imitating yourself or it is impossible to imitate yourself (if being yourself is mutually exclusive with imitating yourself).

If you imitate others, then by imitating others you are doing exactly what you do.