endoself comments on Evidential Decision Theory, Selection Bias, and Reference Classes - Less Wrong
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If you want to change what you want, then you've decided that your first-orded preferences were bad. EDT recognizing that it can replace itself with a better decision theory is not the same as it getting the answer right; the thing that makes the decision is not EDT anymore.