That post (which was interesting and informative—thanks for the link) was about using stories as evidence for use in predicting the actual future, whereas my question is about whether these fictional stories are examples of a general conceptual framework. If I asked if Prisoner’s Dilemma was a special case of Newcomb’s, I don’t think you’d say, “We don’t like generalizing from fictional evidence.”
Which leads, ironically, to the conclusion that my error was generalizing from evidence which wasn’t sufficiently fictional.
Perhaps I jumped to conclusions. Downvotes aren’t accompanied with explanations, and groping for one that might fit I happened to remember the linked post. More PC than supposing you were dinged just for a religious allusion. (The Peter reference at least required no further effort on my part to classify as fictional; I had to fact-check the Napoleon story, which was an annoyance.)
It still seems the stories you’re evoking bear no close relation to Newcomb’s as I understand it.
That post (which was interesting and informative—thanks for the link) was about using stories as evidence for use in predicting the actual future, whereas my question is about whether these fictional stories are examples of a general conceptual framework. If I asked if Prisoner’s Dilemma was a special case of Newcomb’s, I don’t think you’d say, “We don’t like generalizing from fictional evidence.”
Which leads, ironically, to the conclusion that my error was generalizing from evidence which wasn’t sufficiently fictional.
Perhaps I jumped to conclusions. Downvotes aren’t accompanied with explanations, and groping for one that might fit I happened to remember the linked post. More PC than supposing you were dinged just for a religious allusion. (The Peter reference at least required no further effort on my part to classify as fictional; I had to fact-check the Napoleon story, which was an annoyance.)
It still seems the stories you’re evoking bear no close relation to Newcomb’s as I understand it.