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Counterfactual reasoning is about looking at choices you could have made, but didn't.

Counterfactuals are similar to hypotheticals (but tend to focus on choices you could have made, rather than situations you could have been in).

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56Four factors that moderate the intensity of emotions

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53My Current Take on CounterfactualsΩ

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29Agency and the unreliable autonomous carΩ

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15The Many Faces of Infra-BeliefsΩ

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11The Nature of CounterfactualsΩ

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9Applying the Counterfactual Prisoner's Dilemma to Logical UncertaintyΩ

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5Counterfactual Contracts

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100The Curse Of The Counterfactual

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86I Was Not Almost Wrong But I Was Almost Right: Close-Call Counterfactuals and Bias

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85Counterfactual Mugging Poker GameΩ

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70Counterfactual Mugging

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44Counterfactual Oracles = online supervised learning with random selection of training episodesΩ

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37JFK was not assassinated: prior probability zero events

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37Counterfactual outcome state transition parameters

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33Counterfactual resiliency test for non-causal models

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