bramflakes comments on Newcomblike problems are the norm - LessWrong

39 Post author: So8res 24 September 2014 06:41PM

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Comment author: bramflakes 24 September 2014 07:41:23PM 3 points [-]

Has anyone written at length about the evolution of cooperation in humans in this kind of Newcomblike context? I know there's been oceans of ink spent from IPD perspectives, but what about from the acausal angle?

Comment author: [deleted] 25 September 2014 11:39:02PM 1 point [-]

Interesting note: the genetic and cultural features coding for "acausal" social reasoning on the part of the human agent actually have a direct causal influence on the events. They are the physical manifestation of TDT's logical nodes.