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Sam Harsimony's avatar

One complication is that decision making based on prediction markets implicitly uses evidential decision theory, not causal decision theory, which can lead to some weird results.

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Isaac King's avatar

Yeah but evidential decision theory is the optimal decision theory, so it all works out. :)

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Sam Harsimony's avatar

Haha fair enough. I wonder what the ideal decision theory actually is for monetary policy?

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Philip's avatar

There's no condition for the proposed market to obtain though. The market is conditional on today.

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Philip's avatar

In the motivating example, obviously the marginal utility of income depends on whether or not the tax obtains. Maybe you could stipulate that bettors must be unaffected (directly) by the tax (although they might be affected indirectly).

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