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saturn comments on Discussion for Eliezer Yudkowsky's paper: Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Alexei 06 January 2011 12:28AM

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Comment author: saturn 06 January 2011 08:26:44PM 1 point [-]

It's not interesting as a brain teaser but as a test case for decision theories. Newcomb's is especially interesting because Newcomb's-winning agents have the potential to reach Pareto efficient outcomes without needing precommitments or other outside help.