Escaping the cycle
Journal article
Gallow, Jeffrey Dmitri. (2022). Escaping the cycle. Mind. 131(521), pp. 99-127. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzab047
Authors | Gallow, Jeffrey Dmitri |
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Abstract | I present a decision in which causal decision theory appears to violate the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) and normal-form extensive-form equivalence (NEE). I show that these violations lead to exploitable behaviour and long-run poverty. These consequences appear damning, but I urge caution. This decision should lead causalists to a better understanding of what it takes for a decision between some collection of options to count as a subdecision of a decision between a larger collection of options. And with this better understanding of subdecisions in hand, causalists will not violate IIA or NEE. This decision will also teach causalists that, in sequential decisions, a rational agent may be led to make a series of choices which are causally dominated by some other sequence of choices they could have made instead. I will encourage causalists to recognize this as an intrapersonal tragedy of the commons. |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | Mind |
Journal citation | 131 (521), pp. 99-127 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISSN | 0026-4423 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzab047 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85134183283 |
Page range | 99-127 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 18 Oct 2021 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 06 Mar 2023 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8yw82/escaping-the-cycle
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