I’m going to post this anyway since its blog-day and not important-quality-writing day but I’m not sure this blog has much of a purpose anymore.
I liked the characterization of decision theory and the comment that the problem naively seems trivial from this perspective. Also liked the description of Newcomb’s problem as a version of the prisoners dilemma. So it totally had a purpose!
I liked the characterization of decision theory and the comment that the problem naively seems trivial from this perspective. Also liked the description of Newcomb’s problem as a version of the prisoners dilemma. So it totally had a purpose!