Was the focus on Newcomb-like problems an accident of history?

satisfiesvalues · x · 2026-10-10

satisfiesvalues notes a cited paper was funded by the Center for Long-Term Risk, possibly socially downstream of the phyg, asking whether Newcomb-like problems would have drawn attention at all had history gone differently.

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