Alicorn comments on Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality - Less Wrong

64 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 January 2008 07:36PM

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Comment author: Pavitra 04 September 2010 03:00:34PM 1 point [-]

I don't follow. Isn't it precisely on the meta-strategy level that CDT becomes obviously irrational?

Comment author: Alicorn 04 September 2010 03:14:16PM 2 points [-]

I think what RobinZ means is that you want to choose a strategy such that having that strategy will causally yield nice things. Given that criterion, object-level CDT fails; but one uses a causal consideration to reject it.