timtyler comments on Towards a New Decision Theory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 18 August 2009 12:43:41PM *  6 points [-]

There's lots of mentions of Timeless Decision Theory (TDT) in this thread - as though it refers to something real. However, AFAICS, the reference is to unpublished material by Eliezer Yudkowsky.

I am not clear about how anyone is supposed to make sense of all these references before that material has been published. To those who use "TDT" as though they know what they are talking about - and who are not Eliezer Yudkowsky - what exactly is it that you think you are talking about?