I think you’ll find some resistance in the philosophical community about acknowledging the adversarial nature of such situations. The given thought experiments are NOT predicated on the “other” agent wanting to harm or trick the agent in question (in fact, motives of Omega or the mugger are conspicuously absent), but the experiments themselves are chosen to find the limits of a decision theory. The creator of the thought experiment is adversarial, not the hypothetical participants.
That said, I fully agree that there’s a blind spot in many of these discussions, related to which agents have what power that gives them orders of magnitude more control over the situation than the agent the problem states is making the decisions. An Omega who cheats to fuck with you makes for uninteresting decision theory question, but IMO is far FAR more likely to actually be encountered by the majority of human-level beings.
I think you’ll find some resistance in the philosophical community about acknowledging the adversarial nature of such situations. The given thought experiments are NOT predicated on the “other” agent wanting to harm or trick the agent in question (in fact, motives of Omega or the mugger are conspicuously absent), but the experiments themselves are chosen to find the limits of a decision theory. The creator of the thought experiment is adversarial, not the hypothetical participants.
That said, I fully agree that there’s a blind spot in many of these discussions, related to which agents have what power that gives them orders of magnitude more control over the situation than the agent the problem states is making the decisions. An Omega who cheats to fuck with you makes for uninteresting decision theory question, but IMO is far FAR more likely to actually be encountered by the majority of human-level beings.