Dorikka comments on Tallinn-Evans $125,000 Singularity Challenge - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dorikka 19 January 2011 05:30:10PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Would you mind explaining?

Comment author: endoself 19 January 2011 06:17:53PM *  0 points [-]

Are you familiar with UDT? There's a lot about it written on this site. It's complex and non-intuitive, but fascinating and a real conceptual advance. You can start by reading about http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Counterfactual_mugging . In general, decision theory is weird, much weirder than you'd expect.

Comment author: Dorikka 21 January 2011 01:45:37AM 0 points [-]

I've read some of the posts on Newcomblike problems, but am not very familiar with UDT. I'll take a look -- thanks for the link.