PhilGoetz comments on Rationalists lose when others choose - Less Wrong
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More easily? It's more easy to predict decisions based on a calculus, than decisions based on stimulus-response? That's simply false.
Note that in the fMRI example, it is impossible to examine the calculus. You can only examine the level of bias. There is no way for somebody to say, "Oh, he's unbiased, but he has an elaborate Yudkowskian utility function that will lead him to act in ways favorable to me."