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The Logic of Decision — University of Chicago Press

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Key
jeffrey1965logic
Authors
Jeffrey, Richard C.
Issued
1965
Type
book
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publisher place
Chicago
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Claims

  1. Evidential decision theory recommends actions that are good news about the world — those correlated with good outcomes — rather than actions that causally produce good outcomes, leading it to one-box in Newcomb's problem.
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