I wasn’t asking for a concrete alternative for CDT. If anything, I’m interested in a proof that such a decision theory can possibly exist. Because trying to find an alternative when you haven’t proven this seems like a task with a very low chance of success.
I wasn’t asking for a concrete alternative for CDT.
I wasn’t offering alternatives—I was looking specifically at what CDT will inevitably self modify into (which is itself not optimal—just what CDT will do). The mention of alternatives was to convey to you that what I say on the subject and what I refer to would require making inferential steps that you have indicated you aren’t likely to make.
Incidentally, proving that CDT will (given the option) modify into something else is a very different thing than proving that there is a better alternative to CDT. Either could be true without implying the other.
That is true, and if you cannot prove that such a decision theory exists, then CDT modifying itself is not the necessarily correct answer to meta-Newcomb, correct?
I wasn’t asking for a concrete alternative for CDT. If anything, I’m interested in a proof that such a decision theory can possibly exist. Because trying to find an alternative when you haven’t proven this seems like a task with a very low chance of success.
I wasn’t offering alternatives—I was looking specifically at what CDT will inevitably self modify into (which is itself not optimal—just what CDT will do). The mention of alternatives was to convey to you that what I say on the subject and what I refer to would require making inferential steps that you have indicated you aren’t likely to make.
Incidentally, proving that CDT will (given the option) modify into something else is a very different thing than proving that there is a better alternative to CDT. Either could be true without implying the other.
That is true, and if you cannot prove that such a decision theory exists, then CDT modifying itself is not the necessarily correct answer to meta-Newcomb, correct?