So, if you make Nirvana infinite utility, yes, the fairness criterion becomes “if you’re mispredicted, you have any probability at all of entering the situation where you’re mispredicted” instead of “have a significant probability of entering the situation where you’re mispredicted”, so a lot more decision-theory problems can be captured if you take Nirvana as infinite utility. But, I talk in another post in this sequence (I think it was “the many faces of infra-beliefs”) about why you want to do Nirvana as 1 utility instead of infinite utility.
Parfit’s Hitchiker with a perfect predictor is a perfectly fine acausal decision problem, we can still represent it, it just cannot be represented as an infra-POMDP/causal decision problem.
Yes, the fairness criterion is tightly linked to the pseudocausality condition. Basically, the acausal->pseudocausal translation is the part where the accuracy of the translation might break down, and once you’ve got something in pseudocausal form, translating it to causal form from there by adding in Nirvana won’t change the utilities much.
So, if you make Nirvana infinite utility, yes, the fairness criterion becomes “if you’re mispredicted, you have any probability at all of entering the situation where you’re mispredicted” instead of “have a significant probability of entering the situation where you’re mispredicted”, so a lot more decision-theory problems can be captured if you take Nirvana as infinite utility. But, I talk in another post in this sequence (I think it was “the many faces of infra-beliefs”) about why you want to do Nirvana as 1 utility instead of infinite utility.
Parfit’s Hitchiker with a perfect predictor is a perfectly fine acausal decision problem, we can still represent it, it just cannot be represented as an infra-POMDP/causal decision problem.
Yes, the fairness criterion is tightly linked to the pseudocausality condition. Basically, the acausal->pseudocausal translation is the part where the accuracy of the translation might break down, and once you’ve got something in pseudocausal form, translating it to causal form from there by adding in Nirvana won’t change the utilities much.