wedrifid comments on The AI in a box boxes you - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 02 February 2010 03:05:03PM 2 points [-]

Nothing can prevent something that has already happened. On the other hand, pressing the reset button will prevent the AI from ever doing this in the future.

I believe Wei_Dai one boxes on Newcomb's problem. In fact, he has his very own brand of decision theory which is 'updateless' with respect to this kind of temporal information.