Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Re-formalizing PD - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 April 2009 01:01:29AM 9 points [-]

The simulating player does not have time to both simulate and interpret the results of its simulation.

...and so defects, because it's obvious what the other player intends.

Comment author: robert 30 April 2009 02:04:40AM 0 points [-]

...and so defects, because it's obvious what the other player intends.

More interestingly, what if the program being simulated has a really clever algorithm that just happens to take S steps to compute?

Comment author: Liron 05 May 2009 08:05:36AM 4 points [-]

A program can't be "clever" if it is indistinguishable from a permanent defector to other programs.

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