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50 Post author: Wei_Dai 13 August 2009 05:31AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 13 August 2009 12:51:53PM *  0 points [-]

Re ETA: in the comments to Formalizing Newcomb's, Eliezer effectively said he prefers the "special kind of oracle" interpretation to the simulator interpretation. I'm not sure which one an AI should assume when Omega gives it a verbal description of the problem.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 August 2009 03:23:10PM 0 points [-]

Wha?

If you mean my saying (3), that doesn't mean "Oracle", it means we reason about the program without doing a full simulation of it.

Comment author: cousin_it 13 August 2009 03:31:19PM *  0 points [-]

Yes, I meant that. Maybe I misinterpreted you; maybe the game needs to be restated with a probabilistic oracle :-) Because I'm a mental cripple and can't go far without a mathy model.