While I didn’t downvote it, I have a potential explanation. I think that the ability to acausally communicate with other universes is either absent[1] or contradicts most humans’ intuitions. As far as I understand acausal trade (e.g. coordination in The True One-Shot Prisoner’s Dilemma)[2], it is based on the assumption that the other participant will thinklike us once it actually encounters the dilemma.
Additionally, the line about “theorems which say that the more complex minds will always output the same information as the simpler ones, all else (including their inputs, which is to say there sense-data) being equal” reminds me of Yudkowsky’s case against Universally Compelling Arguments.
However, @Wei Dai’s updateless DT could end up prescribing various hard-to-endorse acausal deals. See, e.g. his case for the possibility of superastronomical waste.
Unlike this one-shot dilemma, the iterated dilemma is likely to provide agents with the ability to coordinate by evolution alone with no intrinsic reasoning. I prepared a draft on the issue.
While I didn’t downvote it, I have a potential explanation. I think that the ability to acausally communicate with other universes is either absent[1] or contradicts most humans’ intuitions. As far as I understand acausal trade (e.g. coordination in The True One-Shot Prisoner’s Dilemma)[2], it is based on the assumption that the other participant will think like us once it actually encounters the dilemma.
Additionally, the line about “theorems which say that the more complex minds will always output the same information as the simpler ones, all else (including their inputs, which is to say there sense-data) being equal” reminds me of Yudkowsky’s case against Universally Compelling Arguments.
However, @Wei Dai’s updateless DT could end up prescribing various hard-to-endorse acausal deals. See, e.g. his case for the possibility of superastronomical waste.
Unlike this one-shot dilemma, the iterated dilemma is likely to provide agents with the ability to coordinate by evolution alone with no intrinsic reasoning. I prepared a draft on the issue.