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Illusion of transparency = zap! The text as written is ambiguous: I haven't yet tested out of a bachelor's degree, but expect that I could do so easily enough
by Eliezer 18y ago
Illusion of transparency = zap! The text as written is ambiguous: I haven't yet tested out of a bachelor's degree, but expect that I could do so easily enough if required to earn a PhD - the bachelor's itself just isn't worth the time to me, even to test out of.
If anyone out there happens to be a professor of analytical philosophy or decision theory who's willing to let me come in and just do my PhD thesis on an elegant general solution to Newcomblike problems, give me a ring (see http://yudkowsky.net/ http://yudkowsky.net/ for contact info). But if I also have to show up for classes I can't test out of, just to prove that I was there - then I'm sorry, but I can't.
- tigerthink 18y agoWould you mind giving me a clue on what your decision theory is about? Newcomblike problems don't seem very interesting to me--if you anticipate such a problem, you could do things that make it appear as though you don't understand causality, and if you are participating in multiple consecutive rounds, you could one-box on all but the last one.