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Counterfactual reasoning is about looking at choices you could have made, but didn't.

Counterfactuals are similar to hypotheticals (but tend to focus on choices you could have made, rather than situations you could have been in). 

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23My Current Take on Counterfactuals
Abram Demski
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9The Many Faces of Infra-Beliefs
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4Applying the Counterfactual Prisoner's Dilemma to Logical Uncertainty
Chris_Leong
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26Counterfactual Mugging Poker Game
Scott Garrabrant
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26Counterfactual Oracles = online supervised learning with random selection of training episodes
Wei Dai
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16Two Alternatives to Logical Counterfactuals
Jessica Taylor
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8Conditioning, Counterfactuals, Exploration, and Gears
Diffractor
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8Counterfactuals, thick and thin
Nisan
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6Deconfusing Logical Counterfactuals
Chris_Leong
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8Addressing three problems with counterfactual corrigibility: bad bets, defending against backstops, and overconfidence.
Ryan Carey
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15Counterfactual Induction
Diffractor
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5Open Problems Regarding Counterfactuals: An Introduction For Beginners
Diffractor
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8Logical Counterfactuals and Proposition graphs, Part 1
Donald Hobson
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10The Counterfactual Prisoner's Dilemma
Chris_Leong
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7Standard ML Oracles vs Counterfactual ones
Stuart Armstrong
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