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> the more intelligent agent should win. Not necessarily. An intelligent agent could lose to an agent that can simply see the future.
by Ygg2 10y ago
> the more intelligent agent should win.
Not necessarily. An intelligent agent could lose to an agent that can simply see the future.
- rocqua 10y agoIn the sense here, an agent that can see the future is 'infinitely intelligent'. Seeing the future has a tendency of becoming paradoxical when you start acting on that information though.
- Ygg2 10y agoI don't think that's true. A beast with ability to see two days in advance could easily kill a human, but still not be able to do anything else, like beat him at chess or make tools.
- emiliobumachar 10y agoYour example seems reasonable, but not as a rebuttal to the paradoxical nature of seeing the future. The paradoxes are the same as in time travel. Imagine your best sees itself hunted down two days in advance; it simply goes somewhere else so the hunters don't find it. Then it didn't really see the future, did it?
- abiox 10y ago> it didn't really see the future, did it depends on your model of time and the universe, i suppose. perhaps "a future" vs "the future".
- aeorgnoieang 10y agoMagical powers (and powerful, potentially paradoxical ones at that) are an extremely blatant violation of "all else being equal".