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Lukas_Gloor comments on Duller blackmail definitions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lukas_Gloor 15 July 2013 07:01:44PM *  0 points [-]

Precommitment should not be a feature of rational agents; I think that if we can define blackmail in a land of no precommitments, we have a pretty good definition of blackmail.

Can you elaborate on this (especially the first part)?