timtyler comments on Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 20 August 2009 07:07:20AM *  -1 points [-]

By hypothesis, Omega on examining your code at 6:59, knows that you will self-modify at 7:00 and two-box thereafter.

By what hypothesis? That is not how the proposed Disposition-Based Decision Theory says it works. It claims to result in agents who have the disposition to one-box.

Comment author: rwallace 20 August 2009 10:48:48PM 1 point [-]

Sure. This sub thread was about plain CDT, and how it self-modifies into some form of DBDT/TDT once it figures out the benefits of doing so -- and given the hypothesis of an omniscient Omega, then Omega will know that this will occur.

Comment author: timtyler 21 August 2009 05:43:49AM *  -1 points [-]

In that case, what I think you meant to say was:

Omega on examining your code at 6:59, knows that you will self-modify at 7:00 and ONE-box thereafter.

Comment author: rwallace 21 August 2009 07:44:28AM 1 point [-]

Doh! Thanks for the correction, editing comment.

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