khafra comments on How to avoid dying in a car crash - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 19 March 2012 07:30:55PM 2 points [-]

I still feel kind of like an a**hole when in order to decrease the probability of killing myself I increase the probability of killing someone else by a much larger amount, even if they do the same.

Human social intuitions do seem to perform a lot better than CDT on a lot of these problems. To the extent that human social intuitions approximate RDT, the RDT-agent will vote, cooperate, and maybe even ride a bicycle.