The Refined Counterfactual Prisoner's Dilemma
I was inspired to revise my formulation of this thought experiment by Ihor Kendiukhov's post On The Independence Axiom.Kendiukhov quotes Scott Garrabrant:My take is that the concept of expected utility maximization is a mistake. [...] As far as I know, every argument for utility assumes (or implies) that whenever you make an observation, you stop caring about the possible worlds where that observation went differently. [...] Von Neumann did not notice this mistake because he was too busy inventi
By Chris_Leong