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www.lesswrong.com
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| | | | | We know that physics does not support the idea of metaphysical free will. Bymetaphysical free will I mean the magical ability of agents to change th... | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | A Critique of Functional Decision Theory There's a long-running issue where many in the rationality community take functional decision theory (and its variants) very seriously, but the academic decision theory community does not. But there's been little public discussion of FDT from academic decision theorists (one exception is here); this note attempts to partly address this gap. So that there's a clear object of discussion, I'm going to focus on Yudkowsky and Soares' 'Functional Decision Theory' (which I'll refer to as Y&S), though I also read a revised version of Soares and Levinstein's Cheating Death in Damascus. | |
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| | | | | There are many tricky questions in decision theory. In this post, I'll argue that the choice between CDT and EDT isn't one of them. Causal decision theory (CDT) evaluates expected utilities under causal interventions, while evidential decision theory (EDT) evaluates conditional expected utilities. Humans tend to have strong intuitions in favor of CDT, but I'll... | |
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