Oligopsony comments on Desirable Dispositions and Rational Actions - Less Wrong

13 Post author: RichardChappell 17 August 2010 03:20AM

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Comment author: Oligopsony 17 August 2010 04:38:41AM 2 points [-]

In most of these cases we can distinguish further: what is rational is to act in a certain way and to have a certain reputation. This has the benefit of being more airtight - one can argue for a logical relationship between disposition and action. (In Newcomb, the existence of an omniscient agent makes them all equivalent, but weird assumptions lead to weird conclusions.)