In Limbo, outside the Gates of Heaven and Hell, St Peter stands with a scroll. He opens it up and reads it: “God has predicted everything you have ever done, and ever will do. He is not a magical being, however, but an extremely large mind capable of processing the consequences of all the actions […]
Tag Archives: decision theory
The Centre for Time at The University of Sydney has made available the audio and slides for a talk I have given at the “Causation and Decision” conference in Sydney in January. They can be found here, under the tab “Causation and Decision”. This talk was essentially the same that I have given at the […]
I have a thing for paradoxes. It should be obvious: in my PhD thesis I talked about the EPR paradox, Schrodinger’s cat paradox, the “paradox” of Bell nonlocality; I have recently talked about the connection between Newcomb’s paradox and Bell’s theorem. Newcomb’s paradox also shows my interest in decision theory. And I have also dissected […]
Perimeter Institute has made available online the talks for the recent conference “The Clock and the Quantum”, which was organised through the Perimeter Institute – Australia Foundations (PIAF) collaboration. In my talk I tried my hand at a problem in the philosophical foundations of decision theory. Here’s the abstract: In recent years there has been […]
I find carbon-trading an excellent idea. Well, at least it’s a good initiative. After all, our capitalist economic systems do not place much explicit value in environmental issues, since no one profits from a protected forest or from oil kept under the ground. So it’s a way of, as they say, “humanise” capitalism, I guess. […]
