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Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)
Very Bad Wizards
Using Time Travel to Predict What You're Going to Do
The game uses time travel rather than some fancy way of looking at your hand shape, right? I think that's my intuition too that that look, you're gonna make a decision. Whether you make it freely, this doesn't show. Like, let's say that free will exists and you have to choose between pressing the button or not. Let's say that some crazy libertarian fucking ghost in the machine free will exists. That predictor box is going to light up only when you press the button. It can't speak to whether or not you chose to press that button freely. Obviously, if somebody can come from the future, they will know what I've done if they've been watching me
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