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13 Post author: lukeprog 08 March 2012 11:14PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 11 March 2012 12:14:38PM 0 points [-]

If Predictors are to be modeled as accuracy-maximizing agents, they could acausally cooperate with each other, so that one Predictor optimizes its accuracy about a world where it's absent through controlling the predictions of another Predictor that is present in that world.