3 papers
cs.GT2025
Characterising Simulation-Based Program Equilibria
Emery Cooper, Caspar Oesterheld, Vincent Conitzer
In Tennenholtz's program equilibrium, players of a game submit programs to play on their behalf. Each program receives the other programs' source code and outputs an action. This c…
cs.AI2024
Can CDT rationalise the ex ante optimal policy via modified anthropics?
Emery Cooper, Caspar Oesterheld, Vincent Conitzer
In Newcomb's problem, causal decision theory (CDT) recommends two-boxing and thus comes apart from evidential decision theory (EDT) and ex ante policy optimisation (which prescribe…
cs.CL2024
A dataset of questions on decision-theoretic reasoning in Newcomb-like problems
Caspar Oesterheld, Emery Cooper, Miles Kodama +2
We introduce a dataset of natural-language questions in the decision theory of so-called Newcomb-like problems. Newcomb-like problems include, for instance, decision problems in wh…