amcknight comments on Debate between 80,000 hours and a socialist - Less Wrong
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Can you elaborate for me, please? I don't know what you mean (even though this is LW).
As Douglas_Knight shows, my comment wasn't really well thought out. However, the idea is that a reflective decision theory agent considers the implications of the fact that whatever her decision is, similar agents will reach a similar decision. This makes them cooperate in Prisoner's Dilemma - Tragedy of the Commons situations where "if all of us behaved so selfishly, we would be in big trouble". The thing is sometimes called superrationality.