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Dagon comments on Agent-Simulates-Predictor Variant of the Prisoner's Dilemma - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Dagon 15 December 2015 02:44:32PM -2 points [-]

In neither of these cases is the less-free agent "losing". It's ending up better off than before the game. It may, of course, be tempted to simulate the other agent and torture it for $maxPayout - $acualPayout subjective centuries...