TimS comments on Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 09 November 2012 01:34:15AM -2 points [-]

Wikipedia is not a determinative source.

Which answer is the "superrational" one in Newcomb's problem? In a game of chicken? In an ultimatum game?

Decision theories like Causal Decision Theory and Evidential Decision theory have answers, and can explain why they reached those answers. As far as I am aware, there's no equivalent formalization of "superrationality." Until such a formalization exists, it is misleading in this type of discussion to call "superrationality" a decision theory.

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Comment author: MugaSofer 09 November 2012 10:38:06AM 0 points [-]

In a game of chicken

Swerve.

And let the other guy win? Madness!