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The Greedy Doctor Problem

by Jan Hendrik Kirchner universalprior.substack.com published 2021-11-15

TL;DR: How to reason about people who are smarter than you. A few proposals, interspersed with reinforcement learning and humorous fiction. Ending on a surprising connection to logical inductors.

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