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One decision procedure dominates a given one if it performs well on the entire class of problems the given decision procedure performs well on, and then goes on to perform well on other problems that the given decision procedure does badly on. Performing well will be defined as generating higher expected utility before entering a problem. In this paper it will be argued that the timeless decision procedure dominates the causal
and evidential decision procedures. It will also be argued in turn that the updateless decision procedure dominates the timeless decision procedure. The difficulties of formalizing a modern variant of the ”smoking gene” problem will then be briefly examined.
and evidential decision procedures. It will also be argued in turn that the updateless decision procedure dominates the timeless decision procedure. The difficulties of formalizing a modern variant of the ”smoking gene” problem will then be briefly examined.
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- Problem Class Dominance in Predictive Dilemmas
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- Hintze, Daniel Edward (Author)
- Armendt, Brad (Thesis director)
- Schlee, Edward (Committee member)
- DeSerpa, Allan (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- Economics Program in CLAS (Contributor)
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2014-05
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