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Comment author: MrMind 29 July 2014 07:05:20AM 4 points [-]

If I wanted to learn about a precise formulation of UDT, where should I look / who should I ask? Info on the wiki is hopelessly outdated, and there lacks a single clear exposition.

Comment author: Manfred 29 July 2014 09:30:28AM *  5 points [-]

Have you read Wei Dai's posts already? E.g. here and here.

My one-sentence description is "find the best strategy, then follow it."

If you want a more formal approach, cousin it's post is probably a good place to start - if you like that, there are more posts by him that might be a good idea to read.

Comment author: cousin_it 29 July 2014 10:26:45PM 4 points [-]

Yup. The simplest formulation I have is this one.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 29 July 2014 09:46:03AM 3 points [-]

Is anyone working on formalising UDT, TDT, and the like, for publication in academic journals? Has any of it appeared there already?

Comment author: protest_boy 31 July 2014 04:02:09AM 2 points [-]

There is this paper, http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Hintze-Problem-class-dominance-in-predictive-dilemmas.pdf which was an honors thesis.

More discussion relevant to the state of UDT and TDT in this comment: http://lesswrong.com/lw/k3m/open_thread_2127_april_2014/au6e