thomblake comments on Misleading the witness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 26 August 2009 06:28:02PM 0 points [-]

If making the "wrong" choice when presented with two high-probability, high-payoff lottery tickets is exploitation, I don't want to be empowered. (You can quote me on that.)

Not very quotable, but I may be tempted to do so anyway.

Comment author: SilasBarta 26 August 2009 06:54:16PM 0 points [-]

Aw, come on! Don't you see? "If X is wrong, I don't want to be right", but then using exploitation and empowerment as the opposites instead?

Anyway, do you get the general point about how the money pump only manifests in multiple trials over the same person, which weren't studied in the experiments, and how Eliezer_Yudkowsky's argument subtly equates a one-time preference with a many-time preference for writing lots of option contracts?

Comment author: thomblake 26 August 2009 08:10:15PM 0 points [-]

Yep.

Comment author: SilasBarta 26 August 2009 09:59:46PM 0 points [-]

Rockin.