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Comment author: Gurkenglas 13 November 2013 08:00:15PM -2 points [-]

Cannot upvote this enough to show how much this changed my mind: OP now seems like a clever solution to the Parfit/Newcomb-type problem outlined in parent. Can we find this problem elsewhere in economics?

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