Sorry for the delay to respond, I’ve been busy last couple weeks.
I think you’ve convinced me regarding this. To discuss my own perspective on this, in the past it took me quite a while before I ‘got’ why one-boxing is the right decision in Transparent Newcomb—it was only once I started thinking of decisions as instances of a decision theory/decision procedure that I realized how a “losing” decision may actually be part of what’s a “winning” decision theory overall—and that therefore one-boxing is the correct strategy in Transparent Newcomb.
I guess that in Ultimate Newcomb, one-boxing remains a winning decision theory, though again the winning decision theory is represented in a seemingly ‘losing’ decision. That I failed to get the correct answer here means that though I had understood, I had not really grokked the logic behind this—I behaved too much as if EDT was correct instead.
Thanks for guiding me through this. Much appreciated!
Sorry for the delay to respond, I’ve been busy last couple weeks.
I think you’ve convinced me regarding this. To discuss my own perspective on this, in the past it took me quite a while before I ‘got’ why one-boxing is the right decision in Transparent Newcomb—it was only once I started thinking of decisions as instances of a decision theory/decision procedure that I realized how a “losing” decision may actually be part of what’s a “winning” decision theory overall—and that therefore one-boxing is the correct strategy in Transparent Newcomb.
I guess that in Ultimate Newcomb, one-boxing remains a winning decision theory, though again the winning decision theory is represented in a seemingly ‘losing’ decision. That I failed to get the correct answer here means that though I had understood, I had not really grokked the logic behind this—I behaved too much as if EDT was correct instead.
Thanks for guiding me through this. Much appreciated!