If this is in fact how we should think about FDT, the theory becomes very uninteresting since it seems like you can then just get whatever recommendations you want from it.
Well, just because something is vague and relies on common sense, doesn’t mean you can get whatever answer you want from it.
And there’s still plenty of progress to be made in formalizing FDT—it’s just that a formalization of an FDT agent isn’t going to reference some agent-independent way of computing counterpossibles. Instead it’s going to have to contain standards for how best to compute counterpossibles on the fly in response to the needs of the moment.
Well, just because something is vague and relies on common sense, doesn’t mean you can get whatever answer you want from it.
And there’s still plenty of progress to be made in formalizing FDT—it’s just that a formalization of an FDT agent isn’t going to reference some agent-independent way of computing counterpossibles. Instead it’s going to have to contain standards for how best to compute counterpossibles on the fly in response to the needs of the moment.