Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Formalizing Newcomb's - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 April 2009 05:42:19PM 0 points [-]

representation of preference order (lattices vs. probabilities vs. graphical models vs. other mathematical structures), relation and conversions between different representations of the state space (variables/predicates/etc.)

There's actually quite a lot of this in James Joyce's The foundations of causal decision theory, at what appears to me to be a gratuitiously high math level.