Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Formalizing Newcomb's - Less Wrong

18 Post author: cousin_it 05 April 2009 03:39PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 April 2009 11:55:16AM 2 points [-]

By that definition of "perfect rationality" no two perfect rationalists can exist in the same universe, or any material universe in which the amount of elapsed time before a decision is always finite.

Comment author: cousin_it 06 April 2009 01:31:34PM *  0 points [-]

Yes, it's true. Perfectly playing any non-mathematical "real world" game (the formulation Vladimir Nesov insists on) requires great powers. If you can translate the game into maths to make it solvable, please do.