Because, based on the behavior of people here whose intelligence and ideas I have come to respect, this is an important topic.
Clearly I completely lack the background to understand the full theoretical argument. I also lack the background to understand the full theoretical argument behind general relatively and quantum uncertainty. Yet there are many real-world practical examples that I do understand and can work backwards from to get a roughly correct intuition about these ideas.
Every example I have seen for CDT falling short has been a hypothetical scenario that almost certainly never happened.
But if the only scenarios where CDT is a dominated strategy are hypothetical ones, I wouldn’t expect smart people on LW to spend so much time and energy on them.
Because, based on the behavior of people here whose intelligence and ideas I have come to respect, this is an important topic.
Clearly I completely lack the background to understand the full theoretical argument. I also lack the background to understand the full theoretical argument behind general relatively and quantum uncertainty. Yet there are many real-world practical examples that I do understand and can work backwards from to get a roughly correct intuition about these ideas.
Every example I have seen for CDT falling short has been a hypothetical scenario that almost certainly never happened.
But if the only scenarios where CDT is a dominated strategy are hypothetical ones, I wouldn’t expect smart people on LW to spend so much time and energy on them.