wedrifid comments on The true prisoner's dilemma with skewed payoff matrix - Less Wrong
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Omega like entities are assumed not to be misleading us and we are assumed to have absolute faith in that fact. This means that while we may not know the specifics of what Omega is doing to change the behaviour of our opponent we will know that that kind of thing is part of the game. Since I certainly don't have enough information about the kinds of things that may change the clipper nor the processing ability to calculate likely outcomes from such interference (including, for example, predicting LW readers) it is obviously necessary for me to defect.
Had the decision not been determined elsewhere this would be insufficient. I need to know what has been told to the clipper about me and what I have been told about the me to the clipper. "Capable of superrationality" is not especially meaningful until I am told exactly what that means in the instance.