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Informally, CDT says that you should take whatever action //causes// the highest expected utility, i.e. the conditional probability is replaced with a counterfactual (there is some debate about how to operationalize this, but roughly speaking, it's the probability if you replaced the action you took with another one). Informally, CDT says that you should take whatever action //causes// the highest expected utility, i.e. the conditional probability is replaced with a counterfactual (there is some debate about how to operationalize this, but roughly speaking, it's the probability if you replaced the action you took with another one).
=> Functional decision theory
== Limitations == Limitations
Neither theory provides a satisfying answer to all problems. Neither theory provides a satisfying answer to all problems.
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=== Newcomb's Paradox === Newcomb's Paradox
<= decision_theory/newcombs_paradox <= decision_theory/newcombs_paradox
== Alternatives
=> Functional decision theory