dankane comments on Causal decision theory is unsatisfactory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dankane 19 September 2014 12:59:57AM 0 points [-]

Well, yes. Then again, the game was specified as PD against BOT^CDT not as PD against BOT^{you}. It seems pretty clear that for X not equal to CDT that it is not the case that X could achieve the result CC in this game. Are you saying that it is reasonable to say that CDT could achieve a result that no other strategy could just because it's code happens to appear in the opponent's program?

I think that there is perhaps a distinction to be made between things that happen to be simulating your code and this that are causally simulating your code.