jimmy comments on Decision Theories: A Less Wrong Primer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimmy 14 March 2012 06:18:16PM *  0 points [-]

Agreed for that case, but perfect reliability still isn't necessary (consider omega 99.99% accurate/10% one boxers for example)

What matters is that your uncertainty in omegas prediction is tied to your uncertainty in your actions. If you're 90% confident that omega gets it right conditioning on deciding to one box and 90% confident that omega gets it right conditional on deciding to two box, then you should one box. (0.9 * 1M>1K+0.1 * 1M)