owencb comments on Newcomblike problems are the norm - Less Wrong

39 Post author: So8res 24 September 2014 06:41PM

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Comment author: owencb 24 September 2014 07:29:23PM 5 points [-]

Thanks, this was one of the more insightful things I remember reading about decision theory.

You've argued that many human situations are somewhat Newcomblike. Do we have a decision theory which deals cleanly with this continuum? (where the continuum is expressed for instance via the degree of correlation between your action and the other player's action)