Vladimir_Nesov comments on Counterfactual Mugging - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 March 2009 06:08AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 14 September 2011 07:31:30PM *  1 point [-]

It's an assumption of the thought experiment that the player justifiably learns about the situation after the coin is tossed, that they are dealing with Omega and not "anti-Omega" and somehow learn that to be the case.

Comment author: Desrtopa 14 September 2011 07:50:47PM 1 point [-]

In that case, it doesn't seem like there's any point in time where a decision to cooperate should have a positive expected utility.