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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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Published in:Synthese Vol. 198; no. 27; pp. 6491 - 6505
Main Author: Oesterheld, Caspar
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Nov2021 Supplement 27
Subjects:
Decision theory
Artificial intelligence
Agency theory
Expected utility
Utility functions
On-demand computing
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