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A Defense of Open-Minded Updatelessness, with applications to alignment.

This work owes a great debt to many conversations with Sahil, Martín Soto, and Scott Garrabrant.

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Iterated Counterfactual Mugging On a Single Coinflip

Iterated counterfactual mugging on a single coinflip begins like a classic counterfactual mugging, with Omega approaching you, explaining the situation, and asking for your money. Let's say you buy the classic UDT idea, so you happily give Omega your money.

Next week, Omega appears again [...]

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(00:44) Iterated Counterfactual Mugging On a Single Coinflip

(03:28) UDT vs Learning

(09:24) Possible Critiques

(19:29) Bargaining

The original text contained 9 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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