Perplexed comments on Desirable Dispositions and Rational Actions - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Perplexed 17 August 2010 09:03:10PM 1 point [-]

If I imagine myself as a deterministic robot, who knows that he is a deterministic robot, I am no longer able to maintain the illusion that I care about this problem.

Comment author: cousin_it 17 August 2010 09:10:09PM *  4 points [-]

Do you think you aren't a deterministic robot? Or that you are, but you don't know it?

Comment author: Perplexed 19 August 2010 01:43:10AM 1 point [-]

It is a quantum universe. So I would say that I am a stochastic robot. And Omega cannot predict my future actions.

Comment author: timtyler 17 August 2010 09:56:51PM *  5 points [-]

...then you need to imagine you made the robot, it is meeting Omega on your behalf - and that it then gives you all its winnings.

Comment author: TobyBartels 18 August 2010 05:41:56AM 4 points [-]

I like this version! Now the answer seems quite obvious.

In this case, I would design the robot to be a one-boxer. And I would harbour the secret hope that a stray cosmic ray will cause the robot to pick both boxes anyway.

Comment author: timtyler 18 August 2010 06:11:55AM *  2 points [-]

Yes - but you would still give its skull a lead-lining - and make use of redundancy to produce reliability...

Comment author: TobyBartels 18 August 2010 07:46:15AM 0 points [-]

Agreed.