To quote Silas in the comments for Eliezer’s next post: “Randomness is like poison. Yes, it can benefit you, but only if you use it on others.”
Yeah, but if you don’t have perfect memory (as in the absent-minded driver problem) your past and future selves count as others.
Indeed. Wei_Dai hints that this might be true more generally here.
To quote Silas in the comments for Eliezer’s next post: “Randomness is like poison. Yes, it can benefit you, but only if you use it on others.”
Yeah, but if you don’t have perfect memory (as in the absent-minded driver problem) your past and future selves count as others.
Indeed. Wei_Dai hints that this might be true more generally here.