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Viliam_Bur comments on A hypothetical question for investors - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 04 December 2014 02:23:16PM *  2 points [-]

It's kinda tempting to write here: "It is a metaphor for <some random thing>" and just leave it like that. I wonder how many people would find an explanation for what that meant.

(Actually, it's a metaphor for dating. Just joking. It's obviously a metaphor for Unfriendly Oracle AI playing Prisonner's Dilemma against a Causal Decision Theory. Unless that also is somehow a metaphor for dating.)