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Will_Newsome comments on Predictability of Decisions and the Diagonal Method - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 March 2012 11:53PM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 12 March 2012 09:59:41PM 0 points [-]

gaining control over your opponent's decisions is probably a good idea.

(It might be good to keep in mind Eliezer's point about how discorrelation is potentially a scarce resource (because correlation is a ratchet).)

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 12 March 2012 11:33:27PM 1 point [-]

That depends on the opponent's computational power. There are certainly cryptographic approaches to this problem.