Cyan comments on Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong
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(Looks over Tim Tyler's general trend in comments.)
Okay. It's helpful that you're doing a literature search. It's not helpful that every time you find something remotely related, you feel a need to claim that it is already TDT and that TDT is nothing innovative by comparison. It does not appear to me that you understand either the general background of these questions as they have been pursued within decision theory, or TDT in particular. Literature search is great, but if you're just spending 15 minutes Googling, then you have insufficient knowledge to compare the theories. Plenty of people have called for a decision theory that one-boxes on Newcomb and smokes on the smoking lesion - the question is coughing up something that seems reasonably formal. Plenty of people have advocated precommitment, but it comes with its own set of problems, and that is why a non-precommitment-based decision theory is important.
In the spirit of dredging up references with no actual deep insight, I note this recent post on Andrew Gelman's blog.