cousin_it comments on Formalizing Newcomb's - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 06 April 2009 12:00:52PM * 0 points [-]

Oh, hello.

Parfit's Hitchhiker

Purely about precommitment, not prediction. Precommitment has been analyzed to death by Schelling, no paradoxes there.

colliding futuristic civilizations

Pass.

AIs with knowledge of each other's source code

Rice's theorem.

whether rationalists can in principle cooperate on the true Prisoner's Dilemma

PD doesn't have mystical omniscient entities. If we try to eliminate them from Newcomb's as well, the problem evaporates. So no relation.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 April 2009 12:14:28PM 4 points [-]

Rice's theorem.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does.

Comment author: cousin_it 06 April 2009 12:45:22PM * 1 point [-]

Rice's theorem is evidence that Omega is likely to be type 1 or 2 rather than 3, and thus in favor of one-boxing.

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