Grognor comments on Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 August 2009 01:10AM

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Comment author: Grognor 19 March 2012 02:06:42PM 0 points [-]

Doesn't evidential decision theory get the right answer in that problem, and causal the wrong one? in which case it's the opposite of the smoking lesion problem.

Comment author: orthonormal 19 March 2012 02:37:42PM 0 points [-]

That's correct. I don't know what the person who wrote the grandparent of this comment could have been thinking; it's as if he didn't understand decision theory...