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The Entangled Dimensions of Decision Theory
TL;DR. LessWrong's decision-theory debates (Newcomb, FDT vs CDT, counterfactual muggings) are almost entirely about what we suppose when we consider a candidate action or policy. There is a second, older, semi-orthogonal, but not fully orthogonal question: how to score a gamble once you know the possible outcomes. The