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Comment author: wedrifid 24 July 2014 10:49:38AM 0 points [-]

TDT just augments CDT by saying that running two copies of the same algorithm with the same input will always yield the same result.

What? No it doesn't. That's not remotely what TDT says. That isn't even a claim with particularly relevance to decision theory.

Comment author: Kawoomba 24 July 2014 11:10:37AM 0 points [-]

Hmm. It does capture most of the essence of TDT, doesn't it? See for example the last paragraph of chapter 12 and the last two paragraphs of chapter 13.3 in the TDT paper. I disagree with the "just" in the grandparent, but given e.g. "mostly"? Maybe I'm reading too much into the one-sentence description, though.