Overview: Evidential Cooperation in Large Worlds (ECL)

Some of this research was done at CLR and its predecessor, the Foundational Research Institute (FRI). ECL is not currently one of our research priorities.

This page lists work on Evidential Cooperation in Large Worlds (ECL), previously called “multiverse-wide superrationality” (MSR).

Some papers closely related to multiverse-wide superrationality can be found in section 6.1 of the 2017 paper.

2018

Commenting on MSR, Part 2: Cooperation heuristics
Lukas Gloor
Descriptive Population Ethics and Its Relevance for Cause Prioritization
David AlthausSection "Descriptive ethics and its importance for multiverse-wide superrationality"
Three wagers for multiverse-wide superrationality
Johannes Treutlein
Newcomb's Problem, the Prisoner's Dilemma and Large Universes: a Consideration for Consequentialists
Caspar OesterheldSlides of a talk at the 15th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), July 24-26, 2018. Abstract.

2017

Commenting on MSR, Part 1: Multiverse-wide cooperation in a nutshell
Lukas Gloor
Talk on multiverse-wide cooperation via correlated decision making
Caspar OesterheldIntroductory talk for people familiar with decision theory
Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making
Caspar Oesterheld
Multiverse-wide cooperation via correlated decision making – Summary
Caspar Oesterheld
Multiverse wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making
Caspar OesterheldTalk at EA Global London
Moral Trade
Ruairí DonnellyTalk at EA Global San Francisco

2014

Reasons to Be Nice to Other Value Systems
Brian TomasikThe superrationality section

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