It’s explained in enough detail for me to get an intuitive understanding of it, and to obtain some inspirations and research ideas to follow up. But it’s not enough for me to try to find flaws in it. I think that should be the standard of detail in scientific publication: the description must be detailed enough that if the described idea or research were to have a flaw, then a reader would be able to find it from the description.
This is where I get stuck. I can get an intuitive understanding of it easily enough. In fact, I got a reasonable intuitive understanding of it just from observing application to problem cases. But I know I don’t have enough to go on to find flaws. I would have to do quite a lot of further background research to construct the difficult parts of the theory and I know that even then I would not be able to fully trust my own reasoning without dedicating several years to related fields.
Basically, it would be easier for me to verify a completed theory if I just created it myself from the premise “a decision theory shouldn’t be bloody stupid”. That way I wouldn’t have to second guess someone else’s reasoning.
Since I know I do not have the alliances necessary to get a commensurate status pay-off for any work I put into such research that probably isn’t the best way to satisfy my curiosity. Ricardo would suggest that the most practical approach would be for me to spend my time leveraging my existing position to earn cash and making a donation earmarked for ‘getting someone to finish the TDT theory’.
This is where I get stuck. I can get an intuitive understanding of it easily enough. In fact, I got a reasonable intuitive understanding of it just from observing application to problem cases. But I know I don’t have enough to go on to find flaws. I would have to do quite a lot of further background research to construct the difficult parts of the theory and I know that even then I would not be able to fully trust my own reasoning without dedicating several years to related fields.
Basically, it would be easier for me to verify a completed theory if I just created it myself from the premise “a decision theory shouldn’t be bloody stupid”. That way I wouldn’t have to second guess someone else’s reasoning.
Since I know I do not have the alliances necessary to get a commensurate status pay-off for any work I put into such research that probably isn’t the best way to satisfy my curiosity. Ricardo would suggest that the most practical approach would be for me to spend my time leveraging my existing position to earn cash and making a donation earmarked for ‘getting someone to finish the TDT theory’.