Tracing how CDT and Newcomb-like problems entered reinforcement learning
jessi_cata · x · 2026-10-10
jessicata lists early works linking decision theory (CDT) to RL: Piccione & Rubinstein (1997) on CDT and policy gradients, 1998 multiagent RL and Nash equilibrium, and a 2001 indirect-evolution take on Newcomb's problem — a history of how decision theory entered AI contexts.
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