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"Why didn't you mention earlier that your timeless decision theory mainly had to do with logical uncertainty? It would have saved people a lot of time trying to guess what you were talking about." ... All right, fine, here's a fast summary of the most important ingredients that go into my "timeless decision theory". This isn't so much an explanation of TDT, as a list of starting ideas that you could use to recreate TDT given sufficient background knowledge. It seems to me that this sort of thing really takes a mini-book, but perhaps I shall be proven wrong. The one-sentence version is: Choose as though controlling the logical output of the abstract computation you implement, including the output of all other instantiations and simulations of that computation. The three-sentence version is: Factor your uncertainty over (impossible) possible worlds into a causal graph that includes nodes corresponding to the unknown outputs of known computations; condition on the known initial condit

x Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory — LessWrong Decision theory Timeless Decision Theory Frontpage 54 Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory by Eliezer Yudkowsky 19th Aug 2009 9 min read 232 54 Followup to : Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality , Towards a New Decision Theory Wei Dai asked : "Why didn't you mention earlier that your timeless decision theory mainly had to do with logical uncertainty? It would have saved people a lot of time trying to guess what you were talking about." ... All right, fine, here's a fast summary of the most important ingredients that go into my "ti

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