That wasn’t mockery. What stands out from your example and from the link is that TDT is supposed to do better than CDT because it refers to itself—and this is exactly the mechanism whereby the mind control victims in Quarantine achieve their freedom. I wasn’t trying to make TDT look bizarre, I was just trying for an intuitive illustration of how it works.
In the case of playing PD against a copy of yourself, I would say the thought process is manifestly very similar to Egan’s novel. Here we are, me and myself, in a situation where everything tells us we should defect. But by realizing the extent to which “we” are in control of the outcome, we find a reason to cooperate and get the higher payoff.
I think it did a little more than just give you a chance to mock TDT by comparison to a bizarre scenario.
That wasn’t mockery. What stands out from your example and from the link is that TDT is supposed to do better than CDT because it refers to itself—and this is exactly the mechanism whereby the mind control victims in Quarantine achieve their freedom. I wasn’t trying to make TDT look bizarre, I was just trying for an intuitive illustration of how it works.
In the case of playing PD against a copy of yourself, I would say the thought process is manifestly very similar to Egan’s novel. Here we are, me and myself, in a situation where everything tells us we should defect. But by realizing the extent to which “we” are in control of the outcome, we find a reason to cooperate and get the higher payoff.