Ishaan comments on Notes on logical priors from the MIRI workshop - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ishaan 16 September 2013 07:08:45AM *  -1 points [-]

Are you saying that Omega won't even offer you the deal unless it used counter-factual reasoning to figure out what you'll do once it offers?

So if Omega has already offered you the deal and you know the coin came out against your favor, and you find you are physically capable of rejecting the deal, you should reject the deal. You've already fooled Omega into thinking you'll take the deal.

It's just that if you've successfully "pre-committed" to the extent that a 100% accurate Omega has predicted you will take the offer, you'll be physically incapable of not taking the offer. It's just like Newcombs problem.

Comment author: Ishaan 16 September 2013 05:04:55PM 0 points [-]

And if that's true, it means that the problem we are facing is, how to make an algorithm that can't go back on its pre-commitments even after it gains the knowledge of how the bet came out.

Comment author: Ishaan 16 September 2013 06:28:22PM *  -1 points [-]

Retraction was unintentional - I thought this was a duplicate comment and "unretract" isn't a thing.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 16 September 2013 06:38:46PM 0 points [-]

You can delete and then re-post a retracted comment if it has no replies yet.