Vladimir_Nesov comments on Death Note, Anonymity, and Information Theory - Less Wrong

32 Post author: gwern 08 May 2011 03:44PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 May 2011 04:46:36PM *  10 points [-]

Does timeless reasoning have any application in situations where your opponents can't read your mind?

We all read each other's minds to some extent, and to the extent this happens, TDT will give better advice than CDT. See section 7 of the TDT paper:

"Modeling agents as influenced to some greater or lesser degree by "the sort of decision you make, being the person that you are", realistically describes present-day human existence."