if any professor out there wants to let me come in and just do a PhD in analytic philosophy—just write the thesis and defend it—then I have, for my own use, worked out a general and mathematically elegant theory of Newcomblike decision problems. I think it would make a fine PhD thesis, and it is ready to be written—if anyone has the power to let me do things the old-fashioned way.
So, has anyone made the offer?
Today's post, Is That Your True Rejection? was originally published on 06 December 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
People's stated reason for a rejection may not be the same as the actual reason for that rejection.
Discuss the post here (rather than in the comments to the original post).
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