gRR comments on Anthropic Reasoning by CDT in Newcomb's Problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gRR 14 March 2012 10:35:26PM *  0 points [-]

Well, exactly, that's what I said: the agent is not allowed to prove that it will do a certain action before its decision is made. This is a limitation. My hypothesis: it is not a necessary limitation for a well-behaved consequentialist agent. Here is an attempt at writing an agent without this limitation.