Perplexed comments on Real-world Newcomb-like Problems - Less Wrong

14 Post author: SilasBarta 25 March 2011 08:44PM

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Comment author: Perplexed 29 March 2011 12:20:50AM -1 points [-]

Imagine that you were playing a one-shot PD, and you knew that your partner was an excellent judge of character, and that they had an inviolable commitment to fairness- that they would cooperate if and only if they predicted you'd cooperate. Note that this is now Newcomb's Problem.

Yes it is. And Newcomb's problem belongs on the list. But the Prisoner's Dilemma does not.