Strange7 comments on Newcomblike problems are the norm - LessWrong

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Comment author: Strange7 04 October 2014 09:08:36PM 0 points [-]

For the play money iterations, that assumption would not hold.

Why not? People can get pretty competitive even when there's nothing really at stake, and current-iteration play money is a proxy for future-iteration real money.