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Comment author: timtyler 28 March 2011 07:18:00PM 1 point [-]

The difference between game theory and decision theory is that in game theory you need to worry about not just what is rational for you to do, you also have to consider what is rational for the other players to do.

More like: in decision theory, there aren't necessarily other actors to consider.