pengvado comments on Causal decision theory is unsatisfactory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pengvado 16 September 2014 05:00:22AM 2 points [-]

That strategy is optimal if and only if the probably of success was reasonably high after all. Otoh, if you put an unconditional extortioner in an environment mostly populated by decision theories that refuse extortion, then the extortioner will start a war and end up on the losing side.

Comment author: dankane 16 September 2014 05:22:03AM 1 point [-]

Yes. And likewise if you put an unconditional extortion-refuser in an environment populated by unconditional extortionists.