dankane comments on Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dankane 20 June 2013 09:24:36PM *  1 point [-]

Proposal 1 runs into the problem that it does not cooperate with itself if the two copies have slightly different bounds on proof lengths. Since if A cooperates, you can (with a not too long proof) show that B did not find a contradiction. But this contradicts the bounded version of the incompleteness theorem.

A similar problem holds for Proposal 2.

Comment author: Will_Sawin 22 June 2013 04:38:44PM 0 points [-]

You can search for reasons to cooperate in a much stronger formal system than you search for reasons to defect in. Is there any decision-theoretic justification for this?

Comment author: dankane 23 June 2013 03:19:32PM 1 point [-]

If you do that, you're back in the same situation that you started with and are cooperating with CooperateBot again.

Comment author: Will_Sawin 24 June 2013 04:50:28AM 0 points [-]

This is clearly not true for proposal 2. No matter the formal system, you will find a proof (YouDefect => OpponentCooperate), and therefore defect.