Hopefully I tie up my old job soon so that I can dive deeper into Agent Foundations, including your sequence on CDT=EDT.
Anyway, I’m slightly confused by your comment, because I get the impression you think there is more divergence between our ideas than I think exists. When you talk about it being constructed rather than real, it’s very similar to what i meant when I (briefly) noted that some definitions are more natural than others (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/peCFP4zGowfe7Xccz/natural-structures-and-definitions).
It’s on this basis that I argue raw counterfactuals are particularly important, as opposed to before when I was arguing that all other definitions of counterfactuals need to be justified in terms of them.
Anyway, the next step for me will probably be to look at the notions of counterfactual that exist and try to see which ones, if any, aren’t ultimately relying on raw counterfactuals to justify their value.
“counterfacting on what you actually did should yield what actually happened”—what do you mean by this? I can think of one definition where this is pretty much trivial and another where it is essentially circular
Hopefully I tie up my old job soon so that I can dive deeper into Agent Foundations, including your sequence on CDT=EDT.
Anyway, I’m slightly confused by your comment, because I get the impression you think there is more divergence between our ideas than I think exists. When you talk about it being constructed rather than real, it’s very similar to what i meant when I (briefly) noted that some definitions are more natural than others (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/peCFP4zGowfe7Xccz/natural-structures-and-definitions).
It’s on this basis that I argue raw counterfactuals are particularly important, as opposed to before when I was arguing that all other definitions of counterfactuals need to be justified in terms of them.
Anyway, the next step for me will probably be to look at the notions of counterfactual that exist and try to see which ones, if any, aren’t ultimately relying on raw counterfactuals to justify their value.
“counterfacting on what you actually did should yield what actually happened”—what do you mean by this? I can think of one definition where this is pretty much trivial and another where it is essentially circular