Vladimir_Nesov comments on Solve Psy-Kosh's non-anthropic problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 20 December 2010 11:23:18PM 2 points [-]

(No points for saying that UDT or reflective consistency forces the first solution. If that's your answer, you must also find the error in the second one.)

Under the same rules, does it make sense to ask what is the error in refusing to pay in a Counterfactual Mugging? It seems like you are asking for an error in applying a decision theory, when really the decision theory fails on the problem.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 21 December 2010 12:35:00AM 1 point [-]

It seems like you are asking for an error in applying a decision theory, when really the decision theory fails on the problem.

Why does it fail on this problem, and less so on others? What feature of this problem makes it fail?

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