LessWrong AI July 8, 2026 · Communities

Reframing LessWrong-style decision theory as "commitment theory"

Thanks to @eigengender and especially Chris Lakin and Simon Dima for valuable comments on a draft.In this post, I will present an alternate framing[1] of LessWrong-style decision theory. I believe it should make its concrete recommendations much more palatable to people who find them absurd. Very little of the theoreti