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Lumifer comments on Counterfactual trade - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: owencb 09 March 2015 01:23PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 10 March 2015 04:46:16PM -1 points [-]

I give you things, and you give me things. The result is positive sum. That's trade.

Provided "I" and "you" are both real, existing entities and are not counterfactuals.

If you give things to a figment of your imagination and it gives things back to you, well, either you have something going on with your tulpa or you probably should see a psychotherapist :-/