Right, but in order to figure out whether to cooperate with or defect against Mitchell_Porter, all I need to know is what strategy he is most likely to pursue. I don’t need to know whether he’s a “material object governed by a hierarchy of feedback loops” or a biological human possessed of “consciousness” or an animatronic garden gnome; I just need to know enough to find out which button he’ll press.
Right, but in order to figure out whether to cooperate with or defect against Mitchell_Porter, all I need to know is what strategy he is most likely to pursue. I don’t need to know whether he’s a “material object governed by a hierarchy of feedback loops” or a biological human possessed of “consciousness” or an animatronic garden gnome; I just need to know enough to find out which button he’ll press.