Squark comments on Identity and quining in UDT - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Squark 19 March 2015 05:52:23PM 1 point [-]

Not really. The idea is looking for a decision theory that performs optimally a natural class of problems which is as wide as possible. CDT is optimal for action-determined problems, UDT is supposed to be optimal for decision-determined problems. Allowing this use of randomness still leaves us with a class of problems much wider than action-determined: for example the Newcomb problem!