benelliott comments on Does Evidential Decision Theory really fail Solomon's Problem? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benelliott 11 January 2011 11:49:30PM 0 points [-]

One could apply the same logic to Solomon's problem, and say that the difference between charismatic and uncharismatic leaders is that while charismatic leaders may feel tempted to call for someone else's wife they eventually find a reason not to, while uncharismatic leaders may feel worried about losing power but eventually find a reason why they can still call for another man's wife without putting themselves at any more risk. In other words normal EDTs are charismatic, tickle-EDTs, CDTs and TDTs are uncharismatic.

Leaving aside the question of how the populace can tell the difference (perhaps we postulate a weaker version of whatever power Omega uses) the final decision logic now goes back to not calling for another man's wife.