LawrenceC comments on Why isn't the following decision theory optimal? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: LawrenceC 16 April 2015 05:18:45AM *  6 points [-]

Actually, if you push the precommittment time all the way back, this sounds a lot like an informal version of Updateless Decision Theory, which, by the way, seems to get everything that TDT gets right, plus counterfactual mugging and a lot of experiments that TDT gets wrong.

Comment author: itaibn0 16 April 2015 06:48:38AM 2 points [-]

an informal version of Updateless Decision Theory

Are you implying that UDT is formal?

Comment author: LawrenceC 16 April 2015 11:13:52AM *  3 points [-]

Fair enough. A less formal version of UDT. UDT at least has a formulation in Godel-Lob provability logic.