This is an old post, but my idea of CDT is that it’s a rule for making decisions, not for setting beliefs. Thus the agent never believes in the outcome given by CDT, just that it should choose according to the payoffs it calculates. This is a seemingly weird way to do things, but apart from that is there a reason I should think about CDT as a prescription for forming beliefs while I am acting?
My confusion was: even “when the agent is acting”, I think it would still be appropriate to describe its beliefs according to EDT. However, I was confused by thinking about ”...and then offering a bet”. As far as I can tell, this is just an unnecessary bit of storytelling set around a two step decision problem, and a CDT agent has to evaluate the prospects of each decision according to CDT.
This is an old post, but my idea of CDT is that it’s a rule for making decisions, not for setting beliefs. Thus the agent never believes in the outcome given by CDT, just that it should choose according to the payoffs it calculates. This is a seemingly weird way to do things, but apart from that is there a reason I should think about CDT as a prescription for forming beliefs while I am acting?
My confusion was: even “when the agent is acting”, I think it would still be appropriate to describe its beliefs according to EDT. However, I was confused by thinking about ”...and then offering a bet”. As far as I can tell, this is just an unnecessary bit of storytelling set around a two step decision problem, and a CDT agent has to evaluate the prospects of each decision according to CDT.