I really have to read EY’s UDT paper. Can you tell me what math prerequisites I need to understand UDT?
Have you read the links from http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Updateless_decision_theory and http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/ADT ? They’re fairly short and cover most of what is known.
Eliezer’s theory is the TDT (Timeless Decision Theory). I believe Wei Dai is the main creator of the UDT (Updateless Decision Theory)
To understand TDT you probably need to understand Causal Graphs, and you need to be in general comfortable with reasoning by abstraction. Apart form that its not particularly advanced.
I really have to read EY’s UDT paper. Can you tell me what math prerequisites I need to understand UDT?
Have you read the links from http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Updateless_decision_theory and http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/ADT ? They’re fairly short and cover most of what is known.
Eliezer’s theory is the TDT (Timeless Decision Theory). I believe Wei Dai is the main creator of the UDT (Updateless Decision Theory)
To understand TDT you probably need to understand Causal Graphs, and you need to be in general comfortable with reasoning by abstraction. Apart form that its not particularly advanced.