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Comment author: DanielVarga 07 June 2012 10:18:38PM 2 points [-]

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.