Comment on Open Thread, November 16–30, 2012

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 06:57:13 GMT

And as long as P(U($10)>U($5)) is large enough a priori, it will swamp out the difference.

Well, then why even update? (Or, more specifically, why assume that this is harmless normally, but an ace up your sleeve for a particular class of problems? You need to be able to reliably distinguish when this helps you and when this hurts you from the inside, which seems difficult.)

Because I can't prove that I'll go through this line of reasoning. Simulating my decision process as part of my decision would result in infinite recursion.

I'm not sure that I understand this; I'm under the impression that many TDT applications require that they be able to simulate themselves (and other TDT reasoners) this way.

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