Comment on Formalizing Newcomb's

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:28:26 GMT

Some assumptions allow you to play some games rationally with finite resources, like in the last sentence of my previous comment. Unfortunately we aren't given any such assumptions in Newcomb's, so I fell back to the decision procedure recommended by you: Solomonoff induction. Don't like it? Give me a workable model of Omega.

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