I call it “I take free monies theory!” I don’t need a theoretical framework to do that. At this point in time there isn’t a formal decision theory that results in all the same decisions that I endorse—basically because the guys are still working out the kinks in UDT and formalization is a real bitch sometimes. They haven’t figured out a way to generalize the handling of counterfactuals the way I would see them handled.
That’s just evidential decision theory, right?
I call it “I take free monies theory!” I don’t need a theoretical framework to do that. At this point in time there isn’t a formal decision theory that results in all the same decisions that I endorse—basically because the guys are still working out the kinks in UDT and formalization is a real bitch sometimes. They haven’t figured out a way to generalize the handling of counterfactuals the way I would see them handled.
(ArisKatsaris nails it in the sibling).
Well, Newcomb’s problem is simple enough that evidential decision theory suffices.