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Comment author: stoat 17 April 2012 02:26:28PM 1 point [-]

Is the insight about free will and logical facts part of the sequences? or is it something you or others discuss in a post somewhere? I'd like to learn about it, but my searches failed.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 17 April 2012 09:18:02PM *  2 points [-]

I never wrote a post on it specifically, but it's sort of implicit in my UDT post (see also this comment). Eliezer also has a free will sequence which is somewhat similar/related but I'm not sure if he would agree with my formulation.

Comment author: XiXiDu 18 April 2012 08:41:44AM -1 points [-]

"What is it that you're deciding when you make a decision?"

What is "you"? And what is "deciding"? Personally I haven't been able to come to any redefinition of free will that makes more sense than this one.

I haven't read the free will sequence. And I haven't read up on decision theory because I wasn't sure if my math education is good enough yet. But I doubt that if I was going to read it I would learn that you can salvage the notion of "deciding" from causality and logical facts. The best you can do is look at an agent and treat it is as a transformation. But then you'd still be left with the problem of identity.