That’s because the passage isn’t actually about TDT; Eliezer is trying to avoid throwing anachronisms into a story set in the 1990s. It’s instead about the closest thing that existed at the time, Hofstadter’s idea of superrationality, which does (IMO) suffer from the flaw you posit.
That’s because the passage isn’t actually about TDT; Eliezer is trying to avoid throwing anachronisms into a story set in the 1990s. It’s instead about the closest thing that existed at the time, Hofstadter’s idea of superrationality, which does (IMO) suffer from the flaw you posit.