Manfred comments on Problematic Problems for TDT - Less Wrong

36 Post author: drnickbone 29 May 2012 03:41PM

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Comment author: Manfred 25 May 2012 11:30:47AM 2 points [-]

Well, it's good that you're puzzled, because it wasn't - see Schelling's "The Strategy of Conflict."

Comment author: drnickbone 25 May 2012 11:52:25AM 0 points [-]

I get the point that a CDT would pre-commit to retaliation if it had time (i.e. self-modify into a RevengeBot).

The more interesting question is why it bothers to do that re-wiring when it is expecting the nukes from the other side any second now...