Approval-directed agency and the decision theory of Newcomb-like problems.

Decision theorists disagree about how instrumentally rational agents, i.e., agents trying to achieve some goal, should behave in so-called Newcomb-like problems, with the main contenders being causal and evidential decision theory. Since the main goal of artificial intelligence research is to create...

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Publicado en:	Synthese Vol. 198; no. 27; pp. 6491 - 6505
Autor principal:	Oesterheld, Caspar
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature Nov2021 Supplement 27
Materias:	Decision theory Artificial intelligence Agency theory Expected utility Utility functions On-demand computing
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