Slackson comments on Open Thread, September 30 - October 6, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Slackson 02 October 2013 10:49:34AM 2 points [-]

It's highly relevant to your second point.

Newcomb-like problems are the ones where TDT outperforms CDT. If you consider these problems to be impossible, and won't change your mind, then you can't believe that TDT satisfies your requirements.