```youtube-highlights { "videoId": "Ol18JoeXlVI", "title": "This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50", "publish": {"highlights":[{"id":"h1773665559721","text":"What's a rational society? A rational society is full of cooperators. What's a rational person? Maybe a rational person is a defector. And normally, you might expect a rational society is made up of rational people, but I think it's familiar that rationality at one level isn't compatible with rationality at the other level.","startEntryIndex":414,"startCharOffset":2,"endEntryIndex":421,"endCharOffset":54,"startTime":932.806,"endTime":951.5749999999999},{"id":"h1773665835918","text":"There's this other game theory interaction, the game they call chicken. You're both driving your cars at each other. The worst thing is if neither of you swerves, because then you both die, but you win if the other person swerves and you don't. The best strategy in this game is to visibly take the steering wheel out of your car and throw it out the window so that the opponent can see that you've done that. Now they know you cannot swerve. You're this mad dog that's just going straight ahead. And now they realize, \"Now my best action is just to swerve.\"","startEntryIndex":505,"startCharOffset":2,"endEntryIndex":518,"endCharOffset":40,"startTime":1149.982,"endTime":1179.553},{"id":"h1773666181627","text":"The question isn't how to act. The question is what rules one ought to follow, or how does one even decide what rules to follow? Sometimes it's put in the form of, if you knew that you were a robot with programming, that you could set and you could rewire yourself to make yourself obey one set of rules rather than another, the question is, what sort of rules would you wire yourself to obey? And what you would do is you would make yourself into the kind of creature that sort of always acts in line with the commitments that would've been good to form had you even known about the problem. When you're in a situation like the Newcomb case, you would end up finding yourself think, \"If I had been able to make a pre-commitment, what pre-commitment would've been the good one to make? The good pre-commitment to make would've been to be a one-boxer. And since I've already wired myself up to be the kind of person that lives up to all the pre-commitments I would've made, then I'm already, in effect, committed to one-boxing, even though I didn't realize it.\"","startEntryIndex":547,"startCharOffset":2,"endEntryIndex":570,"endCharOffset":34,"startTime":1246.536,"endTime":1310.1000000000001}],"annotations":[]} } ```