Well that might explain some of our miscommunication. I’ll go back and check.
Consequences” only in a counterfactual world. . I don’t see how you can call this consequentialist without streching the term to the point that it could include nearly any morality system.
This makes sense using the first definition, at least, according to TDT it does.
Both CDT and TDT compare counter-factuals, they just take their counter-factual from different points in the causal graph.
This is clearly using the first definition.
Counterfactual mugging and the ransom problem I mentioned in the great-grandparent are both cases where TDT requires you to consider consequences of counterfactuals you know didn’t happen.
This only makes sense with the second, and should probably be UDT rather than TDT—the original TDT didn’t get the right answer on the counterfactual mugging.
This only makes sense with the second, and should probably be UDT rather than TDT—the original TDT didn’t get the right answer on the counterfactual mugging.
There are two rather different things both going under the name counterfactuals.
One is when I think of what the world would be like if I did something that I’m not going to do.
Another is when I think of what the world would be like if something not under my control had happened differently, and how my actions affect that.
They’re almost orthogonal, so I question the utility of using the same word.
Well, I’ve been consistently using the word “conterfactual” in your second sense.
Well that might explain some of our miscommunication. I’ll go back and check.
This makes sense using the first definition, at least, according to TDT it does.
This is clearly using the first definition.
This only makes sense with the second, and should probably be UDT rather than TDT—the original TDT didn’t get the right answer on the counterfactual mugging.
Sorry, I meant something closer to UDT.
Alright cool. So I think that’s what’s going on—we all agree but were using different definitions of counterfactuals.