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Timeless Decision Theory — Machine Intelligence Research Institute

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Key
yudkowsky2010tdt
Authors
Yudkowsky, Eliezer
Issued
2010
Type
manuscript
Publisher
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Raw CSL JSON
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  "URL": "https://intelligence.org/files/TDT.pdf",
  "type": "manuscript",
  "title": "Timeless Decision Theory",
  "author": [
    {
      "given": "Eliezer",
      "family": "Yudkowsky"
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2010
      ]
    ]
  },
  "publisher": "Machine Intelligence Research Institute"
}

Claims

  1. Timeless decision theory holds that agents should base decisions on logical rather than causal counterfactuals, asking what would follow if their decision algorithm were to output a given choice, rather than what would follow if the physical act of choosing were different.
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