prase comments on What's Wrong with Evidential Decision Theory? - Less Wrong

15 Post author: aaronde 23 August 2012 12:09AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (53)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: prase 23 August 2012 05:57:01PM 1 point [-]

EDT doesn't take prior information, like motives or genes, into account.

Is that explicitly forbidden by some EDT axiom? It seems quite natural for an EDT agent to know its own motives for its decision.