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Comment author: CharlieSheen 18 February 2013 09:48:17PM *  5 points [-]

use the evidence that you see to update your model of the world,² and your model of the world to decide which possible behaviours would be most likely to achieve your goals

I endorse this advice. Note however some consider this in itself unethical when it comes to interpersonal relations. I have no clue why.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 19 February 2013 02:05:37AM *  5 points [-]

Note however some consider this in itself unethical when it comes to interpersonal relations. I have no clue why.

I think I may have just figured out why. Think about the evolutionary purpose of niceness. Thinking about the nice vs. candid argument here, I suspect the purpose of niceness is to provide a credible precommitment to cooperate with someone in the future by sabotaging one's own reasoning in such a way that will make one overestimate the value of cooperating with the other person.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 February 2013 08:28:02AM 1 point [-]

Hmm, yeah. Causal decision theory doesn't work right in several-player games and you shouldn't defect in the Prisoner's Dilemma, but that was one of the things I alluded to in Footnote 2; “would” in my comment was intended to be interpreted as explained in Good and Real.

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