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polymathwannabe comments on Open thread, Nov. 24 - Nov. 30, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 24 November 2014 10:28:59PM 0 points [-]

"I would kill 12 year old Hitler"

Did you mean 1800 or 1900?

Comment author: [deleted] 24 November 2014 11:01:06PM 3 points [-]

I didn't mean that example to refer to original question; I just wanted to demonstrate a vague but somewhat intuitive difference between "fair" and "unfair" use of future knowledge.