Mitchell_Porter comments on Open Thread, January 16-31, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 24 January 2013 12:24:49AM 3 points [-]

Is there a discussion anywhere of the epistemic issues involved in timeless or acausal decision theory? For example, if it's about acausal trade between agents: how do you know about the other agent's existence and properties? How do you figure out what agents are out there, that care about what you do, and about whose actions you should care? If you don't have a rational basis for your beliefs about the existence and nature of the agents you imagine to be on the other side of an acausal trade, can you even be said to be trading?

Comment author: Nisan 25 January 2013 04:11:34PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer's latest sequence may answer some of your questions.

Comment author: Nisan 25 January 2013 05:30:45AM 0 points [-]

Isn't acausal trade supposed to be able to work with agents that could have existed, but don't?