the dominant consensus in modern decision theory is that one should two-box...there’s a common attitude that “Verbal arguments for one-boxing are easy to come by, what’s hard is developing a good decision theory that one-boxes”
Those are contrary positions, right?
Robin Hason:
Punishment is ordinary, but Newcomb’s problem is simple! You can’t have both.
The advantage of an ordinary situation like punishment is that game theorists can’t deny the fact on the ground that governments exist, but they can claim it’s because we’re all irrational, which doesn’t leave many directions to go in.
the dominant consensus in modern decision theory is that one should two-box...there’s a common attitude that “Verbal arguments for one-boxing are easy to come by, what’s hard is developing a good decision theory that one-boxes”
Those are contrary positions, right?
Robin Hason:
Punishment is ordinary, but Newcomb’s problem is simple! You can’t have both.
The advantage of an ordinary situation like punishment is that game theorists can’t deny the fact on the ground that governments exist, but they can claim it’s because we’re all irrational, which doesn’t leave many directions to go in.