Suppose an exact copy of you appeared in front of you. Would you successfully cooperate with him? (Imagine a portal 2 like situation, or a prisoners’ dilemma.) It’s a pretty trivial accomplishment; all you’d have to do is pick a leader and pre-commit to following your other’s orders if you lost the leadership. Since anything you’d do in your other’s situation is exactly what your copy will end up doing.
Now let’s bump up the difficulty to rather than an exact copy presented to you, he was an exact copy of you but with one parameter flipped to its opposite value. For example, the tendency to maintain eye contact. If you maintain eye contact 100% of the time, then your copy will do so 0% of the time. If you do so 60% of the time, your copy 40% of the time. Etc.
Under this constraint, would you two still successfully cooperate and escape yours’ predicament? How many parity flips would you be able to cooperate through? Which parity flips are hard? For example, trust: if you trust a team member 50% of the time, then your copy will trust you only a mere 50% of the time!
I’ll leave it with this: “So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” -Revelation 3:16
Parity-flip robustness.
Suppose an exact copy of you appeared in front of you. Would you successfully cooperate with him? (Imagine a portal 2 like situation, or a prisoners’ dilemma.) It’s a pretty trivial accomplishment; all you’d have to do is pick a leader and pre-commit to following your other’s orders if you lost the leadership. Since anything you’d do in your other’s situation is exactly what your copy will end up doing.
Now let’s bump up the difficulty to rather than an exact copy presented to you, he was an exact copy of you but with one parameter flipped to its opposite value. For example, the tendency to maintain eye contact. If you maintain eye contact 100% of the time, then your copy will do so 0% of the time. If you do so 60% of the time, your copy 40% of the time. Etc.
Under this constraint, would you two still successfully cooperate and escape yours’ predicament? How many parity flips would you be able to cooperate through? Which parity flips are hard? For example, trust: if you trust a team member 50% of the time, then your copy will trust you only a mere 50% of the time!
I’ll leave it with this: “So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” -Revelation 3:16