MBlume comments on The Epistemic Prisoner's Dilemma - Less Wrong

33 Post author: MBlume 18 April 2009 05:36AM

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Comment author: MBlume 18 April 2009 08:12:13AM 0 points [-]

Out of curiosity, do you cooperate or defect against an unfriendly superintelligence in the regular prisoner's dilemma?

Comment author: Furcas 18 April 2009 04:50:22PM *  1 point [-]

I'm one of the human beings that Eliezer has so much trouble imagining: While I'm not (entirely) selfish myself, I have no trouble acting as if I were completely selfish for the purpose of playing in the vanilla prisoner's dilemma. Consequently, it's of no relevance to me that the other agent is an unfriendly superintelligence, rather than a friendly human being. I defect in both cases.

Comment author: MBlume 19 April 2009 06:33:02AM 3 points [-]

well, thanks for the heads-up =)