Vladimir_Nesov comments on What is Wei Dai's Updateless Decision Theory? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 May 2010 11:13:49AM *  1 point [-]

This just considers the "line of reasoning" as a whole agent (part of the original agent, but not controlled by the original agent), and again assumes perfect self-knowledge by that "line of reasoning" sub-agent (supplied by the bigger agent, perhaps, but taken on faith by the sub-agent).