johnlawrenceaspden 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: DanArmak 14 September 2014 05:11:00PM *  15 points [-]

Beware acausal trade! Once Eliezer imagined Quirrel, he had to write HPMOR to stop Quirrel from counterfactually simulating 3^^^3 dustspeckings.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 September 2014 06:11:39PM 13 points [-]

Rational agents cannot be successfully blackmailed by other agents that simulate them accurately, and especially not by figments of their own imagination.

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 23 March 2016 05:43:43PM *  0 points [-]

sorry