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Comment author: cousin_it 27 September 2013 11:32:02AM *  2 points [-]

I think most LWers working on these topics are already aware of Savage's approach. It doesn't work on AMD-like problems.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 27 September 2013 01:52:06PM 0 points [-]

Are there any posts describing what goes wrong?

Comment author: cousin_it 27 September 2013 02:28:30PM *  1 point [-]

Piccione's paper, mentioned in Wei's post on AMD, says:

Savage's theory views a state as a description of a scenario which is independent of the act. In contrast, "being at the second intersection" is a state which is not independent from the action taken at the first, and, consequently, at the second intersection.

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