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Workshop: Imperfect Decision Makers: Admitting Real-World Rationality

Agency and Causality in Decision Making

Pedro Ortega

2016 Invited talk
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Workshop: Imperfect Decision Makers: Admitting Real-World Rationality

Abstract

We review the distinction between evidential and causal decision-making and the challenges that this distinction poses to the application of the expected utility principle. We furthermore establish firm connections between causality, information-theory, and game-theoretic concepts. Finally, we show how to use the aforementioned connections to construct adaptive agents that are universal over a given class of stochastic environments - such as Thompson sampling.

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