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Everett branches, inter-light cone trade and other alien matters: Appendix to “An ECL explainer” — LessWrong

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This is an appendix to “Cooperating with aliens and (distant) AGIs: An ECL explainer”. The sections do not need to be read in order—we recommend that you look at their headings and go to whichever catch your interest. Our ECL explainer touches on an argument for thinking that you can only leverage a small fraction of your total acausal influence over other agents. The argument, in more detail, goes as follows: We can only leverage our acausal influence by thinking about acausal influence and concluding what conclusions it favors. Otherwise, we just do whatever we would have done in the absence of considering acausal influence. Even if it is in fact the case that, for example, my donating money out of kindness acausally influences others to do the same, I cannot make use of this fact (about my donating acausal influencing others to the same) without being aware of acausal influence and reasoning about how my donating will acausally influence others to do the same. We established, in our

x Everett branches, inter-light cone trade and other alien matters: Appendix to “An ECL explainer” — LessWrong Evidential Cooperation in Large Worlds Decision theory World Modeling Frontpage 17 Everett branches, inter-light cone trade and other alien matters: Appendix to “An ECL explainer” by Chi Nguyen , _will_ 24th Feb 2024 13 min read 0 17 This is an appendix to “ Cooperating with aliens and (distant) AGIs: An ECL explainer ”. The sections do not need to be read in order—we recommend that you look at their headings and go to whichever catch your interest. 1. Total acausal influence vs. rele

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