Lumifer comments on Simulate and Defer To More Rational Selves - Less Wrong

125 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 17 September 2014 06:11PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 October 2014 12:14:02AM *  0 points [-]

For instance, suppose you're leading a nuclear superpower. If you can make it credibly clear that you really truly would be happy to launch World War Three

That's more like sheer bloodymindedness X-) not irrationality.

then the other guys call your bluff, you push the big red button, and everyone dies.

Yeah, it's called the game of chicken and that's a slightly different thing.