Soki comments on How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT - Less Wrong

70 Post author: Zvi 14 March 2011 03:50PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 14 March 2011 04:53:35PM *  18 points [-]

It sounds like you just needed something to convince yourself with. TDT isn't special in this regard. With some inventiveness you could also have used quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology, extrapolated volition, or any number of other LW topics :-)

Comment author: Soki 15 March 2011 07:00:33PM 0 points [-]

Assuming that the effects of dieting for a day are very small, it is likely that the utility of not eating knots today is lower than the utility of eating them for every possible future behavior.
A CDT agent only decides what it does now, so a CDT agents chooses to eat knots.
But an EDT,TDT or UDT agent would choose to diet.