grobstein comments on Rationality is Systematized Winning - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 April 2009 02:41PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 April 2009 06:00:23PM 3 points [-]

Given that I one-box on Newcomb's Problem and keep my word as Parfit's Hitchhiker, it would seem that the rational course of action is to not steer your car even if it crashes (if for some reason winning that game of chicken is the most important thing in the universe).

Comment author: grobstein 03 April 2009 06:14:43PM *  1 point [-]

Why don't you accept his distinction between acting rationally at a given moment and having the disposition which it is rational to have, integrated over all time?

EDIT: er, Parfit's, that is.