I didn’t intend to suggest throwing out information: a “public” decision, the action, is not the only decision that happens, and there is also “a priori” of agent’s whole initial construction. Rather, my point was that there is more to agent’s values than just the agent as it’s initially presented, with its future decisions marking the points where additional information (for the purposes of other decisions that coordinate) is being revealed, even if those decisions follow deterministically from agent’s initial construction.
I didn’t intend to suggest throwing out information: a “public” decision, the action, is not the only decision that happens, and there is also “a priori” of agent’s whole initial construction. Rather, my point was that there is more to agent’s values than just the agent as it’s initially presented, with its future decisions marking the points where additional information (for the purposes of other decisions that coordinate) is being revealed, even if those decisions follow deterministically from agent’s initial construction.