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Formalising Newcomblike Problems.

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A MATS mentee of Abram Demski wrote up a project formalizing Newcomblike decision problems, with a fuller mathematical version submitted to AAMAS. The framework is intended to represent CDT, EDT and UDT.

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“This is the write-up of my MATS project so far, as a mentee of Abram Demski . Those who would prefer a more formal/academic/mathematical write-up should look at the AAMAS submission here .”
LessWrong, 30 Oct 2026, 00:13.

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