An update: your comment (among others) prompted me to do some more reading. In particular, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Causal Decision Theory was very helpful in making the distinction between CDT and EDT clear to me.
I still think you can mess around with the notion of random variables, as described in this post, to get a better understanding of what you are actually prediction. But I suppose that this can be confusing to others.
I’m glad it helped!
An update: your comment (among others) prompted me to do some more reading. In particular, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Causal Decision Theory was very helpful in making the distinction between CDT and EDT clear to me.
I still think you can mess around with the notion of random variables, as described in this post, to get a better understanding of what you are actually prediction. But I suppose that this can be confusing to others.
I’m glad it helped!