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notsonewuser comments on Open thread, March 17-31, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: David_Gerard 17 March 2013 03:37PM

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Comment author: notsonewuser 17 March 2013 06:14:52PM *  2 points [-]

You're capable of arbitrarily strong precommitments.

Using UDT is one way of going about making those precommitments. You precommit to make the decision that you expect will give you the most utility, on average, even if CDT says that you will do worse this time around.