I notice that I’m confused. I’ve recently read the paper “Functional decision theory...” and it’s formulated explicitly in terms of expected utility maximization.
FDT and UDT are formulated in terms of expected utility. I am saying that the they advocate for a way of thinking about the world that makes it so that you don’t just Bayesian update on your observations, and forget about the other possible worlds.
Once you take on this worldview, the Dutch books that made you believe in expected utility in the first place are less convincing, so maybe we want to rethink utility.
I don’t know what the FDT authors were thinking, but it seems like they did not propagate the consequences of the worldview into reevaluating what preferences over outcomes look like.
I notice that I’m confused. I’ve recently read the paper “Functional decision theory...” and it’s formulated explicitly in terms of expected utility maximization.
FDT and UDT are formulated in terms of expected utility. I am saying that the they advocate for a way of thinking about the world that makes it so that you don’t just Bayesian update on your observations, and forget about the other possible worlds.
Once you take on this worldview, the Dutch books that made you believe in expected utility in the first place are less convincing, so maybe we want to rethink utility.
I don’t know what the FDT authors were thinking, but it seems like they did not propagate the consequences of the worldview into reevaluating what preferences over outcomes look like.