Any precommitment you make a mugger can just trivially overcome.
The same is true for me. Any threat the mugger makes I can trivially overcome, being a god entity and all that.
I'll reward/punish a suitably higher number of negative or positive utilitons if they include a higher number of negative or positive utilitons. Rest assured I can at least match their raw computing power from where I am.
I'm always going to claim that my threat is equal to or greater then their threat. Make sense?
I'm always going to claim that my threat is equal to or greater then their threat. Make sense?
And their claim afterwards? Any threat you can make, they can make. You see why this is a dead end?
(And what kind of decision theory requires a third party to make precommitments before you can make the right decision, anyway?)
Now I tend not to follow this form very much, so please excuse me if this has been suggested before. Still, I don't know that there's anyone else on this board who could actually carry out these threats.
If anyone accepts a pascals mugging style trade off with full knowledge of the problem, then I will slowly torture to death 3^^^^3 sentient minds. Or a suitably higher number if they include a higher (plausible, from my external viewpoint) number. Rest assured I can at least match their raw computing power from where I am. Good luck.
EDIT: I'm told that Eleizer proposed a similar solution over here, although more eloquently then I have.