The difficulty is in how to weight the frequency/importance of the situations they face. Unless one dominates (in the strict sense—literally does better in at least one case and no worse in any other case), the “best” is determined by environment.
Of course, if you can algorithmically determine what kind of situation you’re facing, you can use a meta-decision-theory which chooses the winner for each decision. This does dominate any simpler theory, but it reveals the flaw in this kind of comparison: if you know in advance what will happen, there’s no actual decision to your decision. Real decisions have enough unknowns that it’s impossible to understand the causality that fully.
The difficulty is in how to weight the frequency/importance of the situations they face.
I agree with this. On the one hand, you could just have a bunch of Procreation problems which would lead to the FDTer ending up with a smaller pot of money; or you could of course have a lot of Counterfactual Muggings in which case the FDTer would come out on top—at least in the limit.
The difficulty is in how to weight the frequency/importance of the situations they face. Unless one dominates (in the strict sense—literally does better in at least one case and no worse in any other case), the “best” is determined by environment.
Of course, if you can algorithmically determine what kind of situation you’re facing, you can use a meta-decision-theory which chooses the winner for each decision. This does dominate any simpler theory, but it reveals the flaw in this kind of comparison: if you know in advance what will happen, there’s no actual decision to your decision. Real decisions have enough unknowns that it’s impossible to understand the causality that fully.
I agree with this. On the one hand, you could just have a bunch of Procreation problems which would lead to the FDTer ending up with a smaller pot of money; or you could of course have a lot of Counterfactual Muggings in which case the FDTer would come out on top—at least in the limit.