defectbot comments on Other prespective on resolving the Prisoner's dilemma - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 04 June 2013 04:13PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (34)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: defectbot 13 June 2013 07:58:02AM 2 points [-]

Superior (or even infinite) computing power does not imply he can make you be persuaded to cooperate, only that he knows whether you will. If there exist any words he could say to convince you to cooperate, he will say them and defect. However, if you cooperate only upon seeing omega cooperate (or prove that he will), he will cooperate.