On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:56:46AM -0500, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote: > The mathematical pattern of a goal system or decision may be instantiated > in many distant locations simultaneously. Mathematical patterns are > constant, and physical processes may produce knowably correlated outputs > given knowably correlated initial conditions. For non-deterministic > systems, or cases where the initial conditions are not completely known > (where there exists a degree of subjective entropy in the specification of > the initial conditions), the correlation estimated will be imperfect, but > nonetheless nonzero. What I call the "Golden Law", by analogy with the > Golden Rule, states descriptively that a local decision is correlated with > the decision of all mathematically similar goal processes, and states > prescriptively that the utility of an action should be calculated given > that the action is the output of the mathematical pattern represented by > the decision process, not just the output of a particular physical system > instantiating that process - that the utility of an action is the utility > given that all sufficiently similar instantiations of a decision process > within the multiverse do, already have, or someday will produce that > action as an output. "Similarity" in this case is a purely descriptive > argument with no prescriptive parameters.
Ok, I see. I think I agree with this. I was confused by your phrase "Hofstadterian superrationality" because if I recall correctly, Hofstadter suggested that one should always cooperate in one-shot PD, whereas you're saying only cooperate if you have sufficient evidence that the other side is running the same decision algorithm as you are. ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
