Manfred comments on Zero-sum conversion: a cute trick for decision problems - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Manfred 26 July 2012 09:36PM

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Comment author: Manfred 27 July 2012 07:19:45AM *  2 points [-]

It doesn't seem to allow anything I couldn't do before.

Yes, basically. This is "secretly" just a different way of looking at UDT, and this particular way is easy to get to from a standard game-theoretic starting point, but harder to get to from a "rationality is what wins" starting point.

Given that the non-anthropic problem is interesting because it introduces tension between these two viewpoints (sorta), this trick is interesting because it reduces that tension.

Comment author: wedrifid 27 July 2012 08:08:08AM 1 point [-]

Given this framing I like it!

Comment author: Manfred 27 July 2012 04:25:01PM 1 point [-]

Yay!