Oh, I see the problem. I was talking about Tyrrell_McAllister’s question upthread, in which the assumption of identical source code (i.e. copying) is dropped.
If you don’t know much about the other agent—except that it is also trying to win—I figure you should also probably just do the best you can to pick the most mutually-obvious ordering, hoping that they will be doing much the same. Sometimes, it won’t work out—but that is doing as well as you can.
That’s assuming linear utility. If the most important thing is to consistently get at least a few points, then randomness may be a better strategy.
The other agent, who has different source code to you, has to agree on it. If it were you and Sniffnoy playing the game …
In the post, it said:
“Suppose Omega appears and tells you that you have just been copied”.
Oh, I see the problem. I was talking about Tyrrell_McAllister’s question upthread, in which the assumption of identical source code (i.e. copying) is dropped.
If you don’t know much about the other agent—except that it is also trying to win—I figure you should also probably just do the best you can to pick the most mutually-obvious ordering, hoping that they will be doing much the same. Sometimes, it won’t work out—but that is doing as well as you can.
That’s assuming linear utility. If the most important thing is to consistently get at least a few points, then randomness may be a better strategy.