Gary_Drescher comments on Discussion for Eliezer Yudkowsky's paper: Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gary_Drescher 12 January 2011 02:30:39PM 0 points [-]

and for an illuminating reason - the algorithm is only run with one set of information

That's not essential, though (see the dual-simulation variant in Good and Real).

Comment author: Manfred 12 January 2011 04:05:56PM 0 points [-]

Well, yeah, so long as all the decisions have defined responses.