Agents may have even less information about other aspects of the world—and may be in an even worse position to make predictions about them. Basically agents have to decide what to do in the face of considerable uncertainty.
Anyway, this doesn’t seem like a problem with conventional decision theory to me.
Of course it’s not—all that’s happened is that I’ve described a certain procedure that bears a very tenuous relation to ‘decision theory’, and noted that this procedure is unable to do certain things.
Agents may have even less information about other aspects of the world—and may be in an even worse position to make predictions about them. Basically agents have to decide what to do in the face of considerable uncertainty.
Anyway, this doesn’t seem like a problem with conventional decision theory to me.
Of course it’s not—all that’s happened is that I’ve described a certain procedure that bears a very tenuous relation to ‘decision theory’, and noted that this procedure is unable to do certain things.