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Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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Decision Theory vs Epistemic Decision Theory
There's no guarantee that the assessment of whether such and such a decision theory fits our intuitions about what's rational. So it could, for example, be that when we're thinking about practical rationality, our intuitions scream out that causal decision theory is the right approach. But when we'e thinking about epistemic rationality, our instincts scream out that somebody who updates their beliefs according to causal episodic decision theory is behaving in a way that's wildly epistemically irrational. The same min of decision theory options on the table in both cases, but the plausibilities of the decision theories might not match.
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