An Author’s Note to “Funk-tunul’s Legacy”; Or, A Crime That Is Its Own Confession
This story was inspired by the following three paragraphs Jessica Taylor wrote in an email on 15 April 2019. I didn’t actually get permission from Jessica to quote these paragraphs in public, but I falsifiably predict that she won’t mind. If she does mind, then she’s welcome to sue me for damages in the Court of Benquo. But if the Court of Benquo awards more than $100 in damages (which I falsifiably predict it won’t), then I’m going to strongly consider the hypothesis that the Court is corrupt and maybe become a Benquo-anarchist.
CDT ends up in a symbiotic relationship with extort-bot, mutually winning relative to agents that don’t give in to extortion, until there are none of those left and extort-bot eats the remaining CDTs.
(The scarier variants of extort-bots are those that cooperate with other copies of themselves, a mixture of clique-bot and extort-bot)
The correct strategy for UDTs is to extort CDT, while being strategic about when to give in to or not give in to extortion from extortbots; giving in early on can be necessary to maintain population growth (getting strictly higher growth than CDT), and at the end it’s necessary to stop giving in to extort-bot, to ultimately win the war.
An Author’s Note to “Funk-tunul’s Legacy”; Or, A Crime That Is Its Own Confession
This story was inspired by the following three paragraphs Jessica Taylor wrote in an email on 15 April 2019. I didn’t actually get permission from Jessica to quote these paragraphs in public, but I falsifiably predict that she won’t mind. If she does mind, then she’s welcome to sue me for damages in the Court of Benquo. But if the Court of Benquo awards more than $100 in damages (which I falsifiably predict it won’t), then I’m going to strongly consider the hypothesis that the Court is corrupt and maybe become a Benquo-anarchist.