Functional Decision Theory

Lecturer: Jaime Sevilla

Date: 14/11/2017

Time: 17:00

Place: Room 114

Abstract:

We will present some decision theory problems, discuss the classical frameworks of decision making, namely evidential decision theory and causal decision theory, and finally introduce the brand new functional decision theory derived from the recent work of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute of California.

Bibliography

• N. Soares and E. Yudkowski, Functional decision theory: A new theory of instrumental rationality

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