Updatelessness explained

IntroductionThis post introduces updatelessness to readers who are familiar with evidential and causal decision theory (EDT and CDT). Roughly, an updateless agent follows the policy that she would have wanted to commit to before learning which situation she is in, even if a different action seems best after she updates on her observations. I start with examples in which an agent would like to commit in advance to a policy that she will later want to deviate from. I use these examples to introduc...