nshepperd comments on Open Thread, Apr. 20 - Apr. 26, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jiro 26 April 2015 05:55:39PM 0 points [-]

Variation on this:

An oracle comes up to you and tells you that you will give it a thousand dollars. This oracle has done this many times and every time it has told people this the people have given the oracle a thousand dollars. This oracle, like the other one, isn''t threatening you. It just goes around finding people who will give it money. Should you give the oracle money?

Comment author: nshepperd 15 January 2016 06:41:43AM *  0 points [-]

Under UDT: pay iff you need human contact so much that you'd spend $1000 to be visited by a weird oracle who goes around posing strange decision theory dilemmas.