cousin_it comments on Decision Theories: A Semi-Formal Analysis, Part I - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 24 March 2012 11:50:07PM *  0 points [-]

I first read about the self-fulfilling prophecy problem on the decision-theory mailing list, in a post by Vladimir Slepnev

As far as I know, the problem of self-fulfilling prophecies and spurious counterfactuals was first pointed out by Benja Fallenstein in the comments to one of my posts.