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RichardKennaway comments on Suggestions for naming a class of decision theories - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 18 March 2012 08:19:40AM 0 points [-]

You could include them in reflexive decision theories. When formalised, I suspect there may not be much of a distinction between theories that can know about themselves and theories that can modify themselves.

Comment author: orthonormal 18 March 2012 04:05:30PM 1 point [-]

As a mathematician, I prefer using different notations for things until I've proved they're identical. And in this case, I rather suspect they're not.