1) Not to my knowledge.
2) No, you reasoned TDT’s decisions correctly.
3) A TDT agent would not self-modify to CDT, because if it did, its simulation would also self-modify to CDT and then two-box, yielding only $1000 for the real TDT agent.
4) TDT does seem to be a single algorithm, albeit a recursive one in the presense of other TDT agents or simulations. TDT doesn’t have to look into its own code, nor does it change its mind upon seeing it, for it decides as if deciding what the code outputs.
5) This is a bit of a tricky one. You could say it’s fair if you judge by whether each agent did the best it could have done, rather than getting the most, but a CDT agent could say the same when it two-boxes and reasons it would have gotten $0 if it had one-boxed. I guess in a timeless sense, TDT does the best it could have done in these problems, while CDT doesn’t do the best it could have done in newcomb’s problem.
6) That’s a tough one. If you’re asking what omega’s intentions are (or would be in the real world), I have no idea. If you’re asking who succeeds at the majority of problems in the problem space of anything omega can ask, I strongly believe TDT would outperform CDT on it.
1) Not to my knowledge. 2) No, you reasoned TDT’s decisions correctly. 3) A TDT agent would not self-modify to CDT, because if it did, its simulation would also self-modify to CDT and then two-box, yielding only $1000 for the real TDT agent. 4) TDT does seem to be a single algorithm, albeit a recursive one in the presense of other TDT agents or simulations. TDT doesn’t have to look into its own code, nor does it change its mind upon seeing it, for it decides as if deciding what the code outputs. 5) This is a bit of a tricky one. You could say it’s fair if you judge by whether each agent did the best it could have done, rather than getting the most, but a CDT agent could say the same when it two-boxes and reasons it would have gotten $0 if it had one-boxed. I guess in a timeless sense, TDT does the best it could have done in these problems, while CDT doesn’t do the best it could have done in newcomb’s problem. 6) That’s a tough one. If you’re asking what omega’s intentions are (or would be in the real world), I have no idea. If you’re asking who succeeds at the majority of problems in the problem space of anything omega can ask, I strongly believe TDT would outperform CDT on it.