devas comments on Replaceability as a virtue - Less Wrong

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Comment author: devas 11 December 2012 11:01:11AM 1 point [-]

That's the lesson I got out of the post too, that to cooperate in a prisoner's dilemma is a good thing

Comment author: wedrifid 12 December 2012 04:22:28AM 0 points [-]

That's the lesson I got out of the post too, that to cooperate in a prisoner's dilemma is a good thing

I hope the lesson put conditions on that. If not the lesson is evil (ie. holding the belief would result in destroying everything humanity holds dear if given the right circumstances.)

Comment author: devas 12 December 2012 09:00:44AM 0 points [-]

Ok, I'll amend my previous statement to be more specific; in a prisoner's dilemma where cooperating means both entities get warm fuzzies, and in warm fuzzies I include all my preferences (so if cooperating would result in 100 people dying and me getting 100 $ I'd count that as a net loss), and defecting while the other cooperates gets me more warm fuzzies but not over a certain limit (as a rule of thumb, less than double what I'd get for cooperating, although of course this goes by a case by case basis) and with both people defecting we get less warm fuzzies, then I'd cooperate