lackofcheese comments on Causal decision theory is unsatisfactory - LessWrong

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Comment author: lackofcheese 14 September 2014 03:57:50AM 3 points [-]

The notion of how to correctly construct that causal graph is, in itself, part of the decision theory. CDT constructs a faulty graph because CDT itself explicitly states that you control the "YourDecision" nodes, and that those nodes should be treated as having no predecessors.