Nick_Tarleton comments on Why you must maximize expected utility - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 14 December 2012 04:01:34AM 2 points [-]

"Apply decision theory to the set of actions you can perform at that point" is underspecified — are you computing counterfactuals the way CDT does, or EDT, TDT, etc?

This question sounds like a fuzzier way of asking which decision theory to use, but maybe I've missed the point.