dclayh comments on Timeless Decision Theory: Problems I Can't Solve - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 July 2009 12:02AM

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Comment author: dclayh 20 July 2009 06:36:48AM 0 points [-]

It's to your individual benefit to be more (unconsciously) selfish and calculating in these situations

Not when the cost (including opportunity cost) of doing the calculating outweighs the benefit it would give you.

Comment author: orthonormal 20 July 2009 05:32:15PM 1 point [-]

You're introducing weaker and less plausible factors to rescue a mistaken assertion. It's not worth it.

As pointed out below in this thread, the fairness drive almost certainly comes from the individual pressure of cheaters being punished, not from any group pressure as you tried to say above.