Apparently this was a really horrible idea! I’m glad to have found out now instead of wasting my time and energy thinking further about it.
What I’ve learned is that I am overly biased in favor of my own ideas even now; I was trying while writing the post to convince the reader that my idea was good, rather than actually seek disproof of the idea and then seek disproof of the disproof etc in a dispassionate way. If I’d tried hard to prove myself wrong I probably would have never posted it.
Another thing I’ve learned is that I ought not think about acausal things because they don’t make sense and I am not a Yudkowsky who can intuitively think in timeless decision theory!
Apparently this was a really horrible idea! I’m glad to have found out now instead of wasting my time and energy thinking further about it.
What I’ve learned is that I am overly biased in favor of my own ideas even now; I was trying while writing the post to convince the reader that my idea was good, rather than actually seek disproof of the idea and then seek disproof of the disproof etc in a dispassionate way. If I’d tried hard to prove myself wrong I probably would have never posted it.
Another thing I’ve learned is that I ought not think about acausal things because they don’t make sense and I am not a Yudkowsky who can intuitively think in timeless decision theory!