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

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Comment author: Will_Pearson 04 April 2008 04:59:00PM 0 points [-]

"If it ever turns out that Bayes fails - receives systematically lower rewards on some problem, relative to a superior alternative, in virtue of its mere decisions - then Bayes has to go out the window."

What exactly do you mean by mere decisions? I can construct problems where agents that use few computational resources win. Bayesian agents by your own admission have to use energy to get in mutual information with the environment (a state I am still suspecious of), so they have to use energy, meaning they lose.