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40 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2014 05:56AM

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 24 June 2014 03:57:15PM 1 point [-]

Then the usual way of rolling all of that up into a single decision now is that you make your current decision as well as a decision about how you would act in the future for all possible changes in the world and possible information gained.

Sounds not very feasible...