Rationality Quotes: November 2010

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A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

why wouldn't a CDT agent self-modify to use TDT?

Because it can't find a write-up that explains how to use it?

Perhaps you can answer the questions that I asked here What play does TDT make in the game of Chicken? Can you point me to a description of TDT that would allow me to answer that question for myself?

Suppose I'm an agent implementing TDT. My decision in Chicken depends on how much I know about my opponent.

If I know my opponent implements the same decision procedure I do (because I have access to its source code, say), and my opponent has this knowledge about me, I swerve. In this case, my opponent and I are in symmetrical positions and its choice is fully determined by mine; my choice is between payoffs of (0,0) and (-10,-10).
Else, I act identically to a CDT agent.

As Eliezer says here, the one-sentence version of TDT is "Choose as though cont... (read more)

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