I can secondhand lend some affirmation to the newcomb case. A friend with DID from a childhood with a BPD mom later became a meditator and eventually rendered transparent the shell game that was being played with potentially dangerous preferences and goals to keep them out of consciousness, since the mom was extremely good at telepathy and was hostile for the standard BPD reason: other beings with other goals are inherently threatening to their extremely fragile sense of their own preferences and goals.
Another solution is illegible-ization/orthogonalization of preferences to the hostile telepath so that you don’t overlap in anything they might care about or overpower you with. I think this is one of the things to think about in terms of rationalist avoidance of conflict theory.
I can secondhand lend some affirmation to the newcomb case.
Oh yeah, that’s a cool example.
Another solution is illegible-ization/orthogonalization of preferences to the hostile telepath so that you don’t overlap in anything they might care about or overpower you with.
You mean something like, look boring to them? Like, I don’t care how good Putin is at reading people, I just don’t have anything he wants, so I’m safe as long as I keep (apparently) not having anything he wants?
Yes, though this often involves some self deception about your true utility function. I suspect that some ace people did this to themselves to avoid zero sum competition they expect to painfully lose.
I can secondhand lend some affirmation to the newcomb case. A friend with DID from a childhood with a BPD mom later became a meditator and eventually rendered transparent the shell game that was being played with potentially dangerous preferences and goals to keep them out of consciousness, since the mom was extremely good at telepathy and was hostile for the standard BPD reason: other beings with other goals are inherently threatening to their extremely fragile sense of their own preferences and goals.
Another solution is illegible-ization/orthogonalization of preferences to the hostile telepath so that you don’t overlap in anything they might care about or overpower you with. I think this is one of the things to think about in terms of rationalist avoidance of conflict theory.
Oh yeah, that’s a cool example.
You mean something like, look boring to them? Like, I don’t care how good Putin is at reading people, I just don’t have anything he wants, so I’m safe as long as I keep (apparently) not having anything he wants?
Yes, though this often involves some self deception about your true utility function. I suspect that some ace people did this to themselves to avoid zero sum competition they expect to painfully lose.