SoullessAutomaton 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: SoullessAutomaton 20 July 2009 10:11:21PM 3 points [-]

I'd be happy to front the (likely loss of) $10.

Meaningful results would probably require several iterations of the game, though, with different players (also, the expected loss in my scenario was $5 per game).

I seem to recall Douglas Hofstadter did an experiment with several of his more rational friends, and was distressed by the globally rather suboptimal outcome. I do wonder if we on LW would do better, with or without Eliezer?