Wei Dai: Game theory implicitly assumed CDT and ignored the CDT vs EDT debate
RichardMCNgo · x · 2026-10-09
Wei Dai argues that academic game theory implicitly assumed causal decision theory (CDT) early on, then largely ignored the subsequent CDT vs EDT debate in philosophy — likely because EDT requires accounting for correlations between different people's decisions, which is messy or unclear to handle in many cases.
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