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Counterfactuals

Edited by Raymond Arnold last updated 17th Sep 2020

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

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

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28My Current Take on Counterfactuals

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17The Many Faces of Infra-Beliefs

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13Agency and the unreliable autonomous car

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6Counterfactuals are Confusing because of an Ontological Shift

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4The Nature of Counterfactuals

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4Applying the Counterfactual Prisoner's Dilemma to Logical Uncertainty

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5Decisions: Ontologically Shifting to Determinism

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39Counterfactual Mugging Poker Game

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32Counterfactual Oracles = online supervised learning with random selection of training episodes

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21Two Alternatives to Logical Counterfactuals

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8Counterfactuals, thick and thin

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8Conditioning, Counterfactuals, Exploration, and Gears

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6Deconfusing Logical Counterfactuals

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9Addressing three problems with counterfactual corrigibility: bad bets, defending against backstops, and overconfidence.

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15Counterfactual Induction

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