Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making – Center on Long-Term Risk

Some decision theorists argue that when playing a prisoner's dilemma-type game against a sufficiently similar opponent, we should cooperate to make it more likely that our opponent also cooperates. This idea, which Hofstadter calls superrationality, has strong implications when combined with the insight from modern physics that we live in a large universe or multiverse of some sort.

Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making 10 August 2017 by Caspar Oesterheld First published: 10 Aug. 2017 Last update: 14 Aug. 2017 Full text Summary Some decision theorists argue that when playing a prisoner's dilemma-type game against a sufficiently similar opponent, we should cooperate to make it more likely that our opponent also cooperates. This idea, which Douglas Hofstadter calls superrationality , has strong implications when combined with the insight from modern physics that we live in a large universe or multiverse of some sort. If we care about what happens in civ

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