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Manfred comments on Simulation argument meets decision theory - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: pallas 24 September 2014 10:47AM

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Comment author: Manfred 27 September 2014 08:41:30PM *  2 points [-]

Actually, upon consideration, I will endorse answering "Sim." Will explain in a top level comment after nap. But I certainly agree that the resemblance to Newcomb's problem is why this is interesting.

EDIT: Whoops, I was wrong.