How does this notion of partial preferences differ from saying “preferences are determined by a causal net”? I.e., the y’s would be the direct causal parents of a decision, and the z’s everything else.
This differs, because the z are assumed to be in a “standard” range. There are situations where extreme values of z, if known and reflected upon, would change the sign of the decision (for example, what if your decision is being filmed, and there are billions being bet upon your ultimate choice, by various moral and immoral groups?).
But yeah, if you assume that the z are in that standard range, then this looks a lot like considering just a few nodes of a causal net.
How does this notion of partial preferences differ from saying “preferences are determined by a causal net”? I.e., the y’s would be the direct causal parents of a decision, and the z’s everything else.
This differs, because the z are assumed to be in a “standard” range. There are situations where extreme values of z, if known and reflected upon, would change the sign of the decision (for example, what if your decision is being filmed, and there are billions being bet upon your ultimate choice, by various moral and immoral groups?).
But yeah, if you assume that the z are in that standard range, then this looks a lot like considering just a few nodes of a causal net.