Comment on Selfish preferences and self-modification

Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:21:04 GMT

I agree, "as soon as the cloning happens" is an obvious Schelling point with regards to caring. However, if you base your decision to cooperate or defect on how similar the other clone is to you in following the same decision theory, then this leads to "not at all similar", resulting in defection as the dominant strategy. If instead you trust the other clone to apply TDT the way you do, then you behave in a way that is equivalent to caring even after you profess that you do not.

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