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We recently saw a post in Discussion by ChrisHallquist, asking to be talked out of cryonics. It so happened that I'd just read a new short story by Greg Egan which gave me the inspiration to write the following: > It is likely that you would not wish for your...

Related to: Counterfactual Mugging, The Least Convenient Possible World MBlume said: > What would you do in situation X?" and "What would you like to pre-commit to doing, should you ever encounter situation X?" should, to a rational agent, be one and the same question. Applied to Vladimir Nesov's counterfactual...