Eliezer Yudkowsky comments on Counterfactual Mugging

Eliezer Yudkowsky 19 Mar 2009 19:49 UTC
26 points

If you want to be the sort of person who’ll do X given Y, then when Y turns up, you’d better bloody well do X.

Well said. That’s a lot of the motivation behind my choice of decision theory in a nutshell.
- MBlume 21 Mar 2009 4:04 UTC
  11 points
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  Thanks, it’s good to know I’m on the right track =)
  
  I think this core insight is one of the clearest changes in my thought process since starting to read OB/LW—I can’t imagine myself leaping to “well, I’d hand him $100, of course” a couple years ago.