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Lumifer comments on Counterfactual Mugging Alternative - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: wafflepudding 06 June 2016 06:53AM

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Comment author: gjm 06 June 2016 04:59:24PM -1 points [-]

I suppose that's that

Not necessarily. It might just be that for some idiosyncratic reason I find standard CM particularly easy to make sense of or your version particularly hard. You should see what other people say.

Comment author: Lumifer 06 June 2016 05:05:55PM *  0 points [-]

You should see what other people say.

I am a two-boxing black sheep here, but it doesn't seem to me that introducing time travel (but only self-consistent!) and perfectly accurate prophets (except when they aren't!) helps with the clarity.