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

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Comment author: cousin_it 14 March 2012 10:50:26PM *  0 points [-]

the problem is no longer just determined by the agent's final decisions

Right.

It's interesting not being my past self and being able to understand that problem.

Congratulations :-) Now I'll do the thing that Wei usually does, and ask you if something specific in the problem description was tripping you up? How would you rephrase it to make your past self understand it faster?

Comment author: Manfred 14 March 2012 11:40:56PM 0 points [-]

How would you rephrase it to make your past self understand it faster?

Include a link to Wei Dai's analysis of the absentminded driver problem, with a short blurb explaining why your theorem-proving agent is like that and not like CDT, maybe. But that would have had only a faint hope of success :P