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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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60Four factors that moderate the intensity of emotions

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9Applying the Counterfactual Prisoner's Dilemma to Logical UncertaintyΩ

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90The Curse Of The Counterfactual

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81Counterfactual Mugging Poker GameΩ

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56I Was Not Almost Wrong But I Was Almost Right: Close-Call Counterfactuals and Bias

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56Counterfactual Mugging

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47Counterfactual Oracles = online supervised learning with random selection of training episodesΩ

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39Counterfactual outcome state transition parameters

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30Conditioning, Counterfactuals, Exploration, and GearsΩ

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30Two Alternatives to Logical CounterfactualsΩ

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29Timeless Control

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29Counterfactuals, thick and thinΩ

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27Timeless Decision Theory and Meta-Circular Decision Theory

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27Deconfusing Logical CounterfactualsΩ

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27Divergence on Evidence Due to Differing Priors - A Political Case Study

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