I agree with both of Daniel Kokotajlo’s points (both of which we also make in the paper in Sections IV.1 and IV.2): Certainly for humans it’s normal to not be able to randomize; and even if it was a primarily hypothetical situation without any obvious practical application, I’d still be interested in knowing how to deal with the absence of the ability to randomize.
Besides, as noted in my other comment insisting on the ability to randomize doesn’t get you that far (cf. Sections IV.1 and IV.4 on Ratificationism): even if you always have access to some nuclear decay noise channel, your choice of whether to consult that channel (or of whether to factor the noise into your decision) is still deterministic. So you can set up scenarios where if you are punished for randomizing. In the particular case of the Adversarial Offer, the seller might remove all money from both boxes if she predicts the buyer to randomize.
The reason why our main scenario just assumes that randomization isn’t possible is that our target of attack in this paper is primarily CDT, which is fine with not being allowed to randomize.
I agree with both of Daniel Kokotajlo’s points (both of which we also make in the paper in Sections IV.1 and IV.2): Certainly for humans it’s normal to not be able to randomize; and even if it was a primarily hypothetical situation without any obvious practical application, I’d still be interested in knowing how to deal with the absence of the ability to randomize.
Besides, as noted in my other comment insisting on the ability to randomize doesn’t get you that far (cf. Sections IV.1 and IV.4 on Ratificationism): even if you always have access to some nuclear decay noise channel, your choice of whether to consult that channel (or of whether to factor the noise into your decision) is still deterministic. So you can set up scenarios where if you are punished for randomizing. In the particular case of the Adversarial Offer, the seller might remove all money from both boxes if she predicts the buyer to randomize.
The reason why our main scenario just assumes that randomization isn’t possible is that our target of attack in this paper is primarily CDT, which is fine with not being allowed to randomize.