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."
I don't know if this is a little too afar field for even a Discussion post, but people seemed to enjoy my previous articles (Girl Scouts financial filings, video game console insurance, philosophy of identity/abortion, & prediction market fees), so...
I recently wrote up an idea that has been bouncing around my head ever since I watched Death Note years ago - can we quantify Light Yagami's mistakes? Which mistake was the greatest? How could one do better? We can shed some light on the matter by examining DN with... basic information theory.
Presented for LessWrong's consideration: Death Note & Anonymity.