This argument sounds roughly right to me, though I’m not sure FDT is exactly the right thing. If two organisms were functionally identical but had totally different genomes, then FDT would decide as though they’re one unit, whereas I think evolution would select for deciding as though only the genetically-identical organisms are a unit? I’m not entirely sure about that.
I agree that it’s not exactly FDT. I think I actually meant updateless decision theory (UDT), but I’m not sure because I have some of uncertainty to exactly what others mean by UDT.
I claim that mutations + natural selection (evolution) selects for agents that acts according to the policy they would have wanted to pre-commit to, at the time of their birth (last mutation).
Yes, there are some details around who I recognize as a copy of me. In classical FDT this would be anyone who are running the same program (what ever that means). In evolution this would be anyone who are carrying the same genes. Both of these concept are complicated by “same program” and “same genes” are scalar (or more complicated?) and not Boolean values.
Edit: I’m not sure I agree with what I just said. I believe something in this direction, but I want to think some more. For example, people with similar genes probably don’t cooperate because decision theory (my decision to cooperate with you is correlated with your decision to cooperate with me), but because shared goals (we both want to spread our shared genes).
This argument sounds roughly right to me, though I’m not sure FDT is exactly the right thing. If two organisms were functionally identical but had totally different genomes, then FDT would decide as though they’re one unit, whereas I think evolution would select for deciding as though only the genetically-identical organisms are a unit? I’m not entirely sure about that.
I agree that it’s not exactly FDT. I think I actually meant updateless decision theory (UDT), but I’m not sure because I have some of uncertainty to exactly what others mean by UDT.
I claim that mutations + natural selection (evolution) selects for agents that acts according to the policy they would have wanted to pre-commit to, at the time of their birth (last mutation).
Yes, there are some details around who I recognize as a copy of me. In classical FDT this would be anyone who are running the same program (what ever that means). In evolution this would be anyone who are carrying the same genes. Both of these concept are complicated by “same program” and “same genes” are scalar (or more complicated?) and not Boolean values.Edit: I’m not sure I agree with what I just said. I believe something in this direction, but I want to think some more. For example, people with similar genes probably don’t cooperate because decision theory (my decision to cooperate with you is correlated with your decision to cooperate with me), but because shared goals (we both want to spread our shared genes).