Vivificient comments on Probability and radical uncertainty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vivificient 27 November 2013 01:21:28AM 3 points [-]

I don't have a full strategy, but I have an idea for a data-gathering experiment:

I hand you a coin and try to get you to put it in the box for me. If you refuse, I update in the direction of the box harming people who put coins in it. If you comply, I watch and see what happens.

Comment author: David_Chapman 27 November 2013 04:49:51AM 0 points [-]

Excellent! This is very much pointing in the direction of what I consider the correct general approach. I hadn't thought of what you suggest specifically, but it's an instance of the general category I had in mind.