UDT shows that decision theory is more puzzling than ever — LessWrong

I feel like MIRI perhaps mispositioned FDT (their variant of UDT) as a clear advancement in decision theory, whereas maybe they could have attracted…

x UDT shows that decision theory is more puzzling than ever — LessWrong Updateless Decision Theory Decision theory Open Problems Anthropics Rationality AI Curated 232 UDT shows that decision theory is more puzzling than ever by Wei Dai 13th Sep 2023 AI Alignment Forum 2 min read 59 232 Ω 96 I feel like MIRI perhaps mispositioned FDT (their variant of UDT) as a clear advancement in decision theory, whereas maybe they could have attracted more attention/interest from academic philosophy if the framing was instead that the UDT line of thinking shows that decision theory is just more deeply puzzli

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