Implications of ECL - Lukas Finnveden

“ECL” is short for “evidential cooperation in large worlds”.

Implications of ECL Lukas Finnveden Aug 20, 2023 9 Share “ECL” is short for “evidential cooperation in large worlds”. It’s an idea that was originally introduced in Oesterheld (2017) (under the name of “multiverse-wide superrationality”). This post will explore implications of ECL, but it won’t explain the idea itself. If you haven’t encountered it before, you can read the paper linked above or this summary written by Lukas Gloor. 1 This post lists all candidates for decision-relevant implications of ECL that I know about and think are plausibly important. 2 In this post, I will not describe i

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