TheOtherDave 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: TheOtherDave 19 June 2013 07:49:38PM 1 point [-]

most of the confusion here comes from a conception of free will that decouples the decision from the procedure leading to it.

Yeah, agreed. I often describe this as NP being more about what kind of person I am than it is about what decision I make, but I like your phrasing better.