gwern comments on The True Epistemic Prisoner's Dilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 20 April 2009 11:43:21PM *  1 point [-]

The point was that it is rational to cooperate even though you are weeping. The explanation is given in the previous post.

I am far from convinced that superrationality applies between you or me and humans in general, let alone humans with epistemic processes that permit them to be creationists. At least, it's obvious that my decision process is not correlated in any relevant sense with that of someone who hasn't heard/thought of or doesn't subscribe to superrationality.

Comment author: gwern 16 April 2012 08:15:06PM 0 points [-]

For those not familiar with superrationality, see http://www.gwern.net/docs/1985-hofstadter