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Decision Theory: Newcomb's Problem

Decision Theory: Newcomb's Problem

Nov 25, 2017 by AnnaSalamon

Decisions need to be modeled with some structure in order to be scrutinized and systematically improved; simply "intuiting" the answers to decision problems by ad-hoc methods is not conducive to thorough analysis.

For this, we formulate decision theories. This sequence, themed with an analysis of Newcomb's problem, is a consolidated summary and context for the many decision theory discussions found on LessWrong at the time of writing.

31Decision theory: An outline of some upcoming posts
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55Confusion about Newcomb is confusion about counterfactuals
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38Decision theory: Why we need to reduce “could”, “would”, “should”
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48Decision theory: Why Pearl helps reduce “could” and “would”, but still leaves us with at least three alternatives
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