Hm I think LDT must be fleshed out in more detail, to clarify which consequences follow or which generalizations are most natural. Arguing from selection seems like a powerful tool here; nonetheless, this seems like a difficult project. Suppose you live in a Universe where you often get cloned with mutations, and made to play prisoner’s dilemmas against your imperfect copies; how much correlation does the most successful version of LDT assign between the two competing policies? The full theory must deal with even more general scenarios.
Hm I think LDT must be fleshed out in more detail, to clarify which consequences follow or which generalizations are most natural. Arguing from selection seems like a powerful tool here; nonetheless, this seems like a difficult project. Suppose you live in a Universe where you often get cloned with mutations, and made to play prisoner’s dilemmas against your imperfect copies; how much correlation does the most successful version of LDT assign between the two competing policies? The full theory must deal with even more general scenarios.