gwern comments on What is Wei Dai's Updateless Decision Theory? - Less Wrong

37 Post author: AlephNeil 19 May 2010 10:16AM

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Comment author: gwern 20 May 2010 01:52:12PM 0 points [-]

In other words, 'Counterfactual Mugging' is actually isomorphic to:

To?

Comment author: AlephNeil 20 May 2010 02:00:31PM 2 points [-]

To the game depicted in the diagram following that sentence.

Which is the game you get by turning the Omega node in 'Counterfactual Mugging' into a Player node.

Which is the following game:

"A coin is tossed. You must either push a button or not. If you push it and the coin was heads then you lose $100. If you push it and the coin was tails then you gain $10000. If you don't push it then nothing happens."

Comment author: gwern 20 May 2010 02:29:30PM 0 points [-]

After checking the HTML and seeing an img, turns out that AdBlock was deleting it; never mind.