Armed Forces

Myriad Reality

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Er, exactly? You would probably know yourself well enough to know whether or not you would drink it ahead of time.

@Etcetera

You can fool yourself because of the shock value of the substantial reward, but then, as the euphoria dies down, and logic is allowed room, a mind can definitely, unintentionally change.

Myriad Reality

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But that's the thing: How could you change intentions like that? You know the rules of the game beforehand. Either you intend to change intentions or you have to drink it.

@Etcetera

No, there is the possibility to actually intend to drink it, without intending to change beforehand, but as the time approaches to carry it out, the consequences dawn on you more and more, as you think about it more and more, and can eventually lead to an unintended change. But an intended change in intention is in the wording. If you intended to change your mind, how can you claim to ever have truly intended to do the first thing, without lying?

Myriad Reality

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Hence the puzzle. A contest was being held with the following rules: You have a small bottle of poison that won't kill you; it will just make you violently ill for the next day. You're offered a substantial sum of money if, at midnight that night, you can intend to drink the poison by noon the next day. You do not have to drink the poison to win the game—you receive the money at 12:05 at night and are fully free to choose to not drink the poison once you receive the money. Is it possible to win the game but not drink the poison?

@Etcetera

It doesn't seem as complicated to me. That answer depends on the circumstances of the decision to change intentions, mainly involving a lack of a preemptive intention to do so. An intention to change intentions is no intention at all. It is just an indicator of hat the true intentions always were.

Myriad Reality

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Sure, but then it asks whether you can intend to change your intention. That's a harder question to answer.

@Etcetera

If you intend to change your intention, your intention was never really what it started as anyways.

Myriad Reality

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He created it in his analysis on Mutually Assured Destruction, and it effectively asks if you can truly intend to do something and then not do it.

@Etcetera

Seems easy enough. You definitely can.

Myriad Reality

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I don't know what you did either. But you do.

@Etcetera

Guilty. Take me to juvie.

Myriad Reality

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It's not every day you can have someone answer Kavka's Toxin Puzzle.

@Etcetera

You lost me.

Myriad Reality

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You know what you did.

@Dynamics

I know most of what I do. Not any specific reference though.

Myriad Reality

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*Laughs*
You hit the nail on the head there.

@Etcetera

I just hope you know what you're doing with what you're implying.

Myriad Reality

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Eh. That'll resolve itself.

You could've just not been inherently anti-lucky.

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You have zero room to talk.

@Dynamics

Strange implications. The misfortune is funny though.