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19 Post author: orthonormal 05 November 2012 01:23AM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 05 November 2012 05:15:12AM 6 points [-]

Explicit superrationality/Kantian reasoners are probably significantly different from other humans, e.g. probably smarter and more educated, for example. I would like to politicians of all parties notice that the electorate is more educated (and pitch their policies accordingly), to have primaries favor more sane brands of each party, and have ballot initiatives resolved in favor of global cooperation of TDTers rather than narrow rent-seeking coalitions.

Comment author: SilasBarta 06 November 2012 12:36:38AM 1 point [-]

Explicit superrationality/Kantian reasoners

You don't need the "similar minds" to be explicit super-rationality reasoners; it suffices that they have a similar input/output mapping, so your decisions are logically coupled to someone who makes the same kind of decisions but because of "fear of hellfire".