Tetronian comments on You're in Newcomb's Box - LessWrong

40 Post author: HonoreDB 05 February 2011 08:46PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 February 2011 04:29:43PM *  5 points [-]

Agreed. Maybe a better way to phrase it would be:

Q: Why does this knife have a handle?

A: Because it was designed so that you can grasp it without cutting yourself.

This fully answers the question and doesn't make the temporal relation between the creation of the knife and the usage of the knife unclear.