The September Open Thread, Part 2 has got nearly 800 posts, so let's have a little breathing room.
This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.
Do you mean for PD variants?
I don't know what your method is for determining what cooperation maps to for the general case, but I believe this non-PD example works: costly punishment. Do you punish a wrongdoer in a case where the costs of administering the punishment exceed the benefits (including savings from future deterrence of others), and there is no other punishment option?
I claim the following:
1) Defection -> punish
2) Cooperation -> not punish
3) CDT reasons that punishing will cause lower utility on net, so it does not punish.
4) TDT reasons that "If this algorithm did not output 'punish', the probability of this crime having happened would be higher; thus, for the action 'not punish', the crime's badness carries a higher weighting than it does for the action 'punish'." (note: does not necessarily imply punish)
5) There exist values for the crime's badness, punishment costs, and criminal response to expected punishment for which TDT punishes, while CDT always doesn't.
6) In cases where TDT differs from CDT, the former has the higher EU.
Naturally, you can save CDT by positing a utility function that values punishing of wrongdoers ("sense of justice"), but we're assuming the UF is fixed -- changing it is cheating.
What do you think of this example?
Not specifically. I'm just seeking general enlightenment.
It's bringing the features of TDT into better view for me. There's this Greg Egan story where you have people whose brains were forcibly modified so as to make them slaves to a cause, and they rediscover autonomy by first reasoning that, because of the superhuman loyalty to the cause which the brain modification gives them, they are more reliable adherents of the cause than the nominal masters who enslaved them, and from there they proceed to reestablish the ability to set their own goals. TDT reminds me of that.