gjm comments on A few misconceptions surrounding Roko's basilisk - Less Wrong

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Comment author: entirelyuseless 11 October 2015 01:14:58PM 0 points [-]

I will take that chance into account. Fortunately it is a low one and should hardly be a reason to defect against all humans.

Comment author: anon85 11 October 2015 02:45:00PM -1 points [-]

Cool, so in conclusion, if we met in real life and played a one-shot PD, you'd (probably) cooperate and I'd defect. My strategy seems superior.

Comment author: gjm 11 October 2015 05:30:01PM 1 point [-]

And yet I somehow find myself more inclined to engage in PD-like interactions with entirelyuseless than with your good self.

Comment author: anon85 11 October 2015 06:14:19PM *  0 points [-]

Oh, yes, me too. I want to engage in one-shot PD games with entirelyuseless (as opposed to other people), because he or she will give me free utility if I sell myself right. I wouldn't want to play one-shot PDs against myself, in the same way that I wouldn't want to play chess against Kasparov.

By the way, note that I usually cooperate in repeated PD games, and most real-life PDs are repeated games. In addition, my utility function takes other people into consideration; I would not screw people over for small personal gains, because I care about their happiness. In other words, defecting in one-shot PDs is entirely consistent with being a decent human being.