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

69 Post author: orthonormal 13 March 2012 11:31PM

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Comment author: handoflixue 16 March 2012 08:08:36PM 3 points [-]

Oooh, between your description of CDT, and the recent post on how experts will defend their theory even against counterfactuals, I finally understand how someone can possibly justify two-boxing in Newcombe's Problem. As an added bonus, I'm also seeing how being "half rational" can be intensely dangerous, since it leads to things like two-boxing in Newcombe's Problem :)