garden/newcomblike-problems.md

Newcomblike Problems

• http://mindingourway.com/intro-to-newcomblike-problems/. also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27s_paradox
  • "Today it is a much debated problem in the philosophical branch of decision theory.[3]"
• Named after William Newcomb
  • Both the Mirror Token Trade and Newcomb's Problem share a similar structure: there is another agent in the environment that knows how you reason.
  • We can generalize this to a whole class of problems, known as "Newcomblike problems".