Interesting J Rogers thanks.
A further note on my intuitions. It's not that I think these initial philosophical intuitions of mine were wrong (in fact I'm very confident they're right), it's just that I've shut up about them because they're at too much of an early stage to be very useful. Rest assured...things will come out exactly the way I said they would ;)
I know what's missing from current decision theory you know. Standard probability theory tells you how to combine peices of information to obtain a new probability enabling you to make predictions via Bayes theorem. Probability theory was subsumed by decision theory, which tells you how to combine probabilities of outcomes with values, enabling you to determine optimal courses of action.
But there's yet another big mathematical generalization still to come.... what's needed is an extension enabling you to combine different utility functions in order to integrate knowledge. So you see guys... even knowing almost nothing about decision theory yet (since I haven't studied it in depth) I already intuitively see what's missing ;)
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