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Khoth comments on "Mind reading" - how is this done? - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: CWG 15 August 2013 03:31PM

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Comment author: Khoth 20 August 2013 09:31:31PM *  0 points [-]

More relevantly, P(both have a goldfish named George) << P(they don't, and there's some trickery going on)

It's actually quite a useful clue - obviously no psychological "mind-reading" technique could force it, so it must be some other trick, most likely the one garethrees suggests.