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[coolhandcaleb]

would you stab yourself in the eye with a pair of scissors if a future-viewing maching showed you doing it and then being handed one million dollars?

if you say no, then you're still going to end up doing it.

if you say yes, then you're still going to end up doing it.

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[calculated_loss]

I'm gonna have to see yer math. Sounds like stab'n the man'n run'n off w/a million dollars and a future view'n machine's a pretty good 3rd option. S'pect a view'n machine's a perty big non-nuetral variable.

[leatherface88]

I'm gonna have to go with Sean.

[coolhandcaleb]

I'm afraid that both of you aren't reading this very clearly. You see there is no "man" mentioned. The thousand dollars just pops out of nowhere after you stab yourself. And at the moment you see the prediction, there is no million dollars.

All that happens is, you are watching a machine that predicts the future and it shows you stabbing yourself in the eye with a pair of scissors and immediately afterwards recieiving a million dollars.

[calculated_loss]

Sorry, assumed w/"handed". Formal system-esque proof? One outcome from a control and a non-nuetral variable experiment? This doesn't negate function w/infinitely similiar outcomes, but extra input increases possible outcomes, stealing/selling it,moving to Europe & marrying it,assume it's a TV,etc. The machine could show what's required for you to do precition, but it'd be maker, not viewer. If you knows this, the same problem arises. Could you explain?

Horse walks into a bar.
Bar tender: Why the long face?
The engineer sitting at the bar: It's probably b/c of his GH pre-protein and polyadenylation signals.
No laughter. Maybe some whimpers. Everyone chugs their beer.

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[calculated_loss]

Looks pretty funny. Is there more?