srn347 comments on Omega's subcontracting to Alpha - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 March 2010 06:52PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 January 2013 05:54:14AM 0 points [-]

Take the £10, my reasoning goes as follows: if I precommit to refuse it, either I get the £1,000,000 and refuse £10, or I get £0 and omega doesn't even show up; if I precommit to accept it, either I get the £1,000,000 and omega doesn't even show up, or I get £10 from omega showing up and me accepting (the respective expected utilities being £500,000 and £500,005). I do better by precommitting to take it, so to be reflectively consistent (and win), I must now take it.