A super late #introduction

Hi Mastodon, and thank you @kinozhao for running @fediphilosopher !

I'm Xin Hui, a PhD student in #philosophy shuttling between the University of #Pittsburgh and #MIT. My main philosophical interests lie in the intersection of #decisiontheory and #feminist epistemology, particularly how decision models bear on our #social and #political agency.

You may know me as thyacinth on #twitter!

Me - Kobi, have you decided who you are supporting in the final?

Kobi - Paris St Germain

Me (roll eyes)

Kobi - I mean England. I mean Argentina. Or France.

#decisionTheory

Me - Kobi, have you decided who you are supporting in the final?

Kobi - Paris St Germain

Me (roll eyes)

Kobi - I mean England. I mean Argentina. Or France.

#decisionTheory

We know inflation impacts expected (monetary) value, but how might it impact expected (subjective) utility?

Are there standard discount rates for subjective utility (over time) that are analogous to inflation rates on expected (monetary) value?

Are there illustrative real world examples?

Have the subjective discount rates been formalized somewhere?

I considered time discounting (e.g., hyperbolic discounting), but wasn't sure if that's sufficiently analogous.

#decisionTheory #decisionScience

Have been thinking for some time about whether it's permissible to bring about a #TransformativeExperience for someone else when that person doesn't know or resists it happening.

I mean transformative experience in the technical philosophical sense from LA Paul: and experience by our values and preferences change. On Paul's account, it already looks like we can't make a #RationalDecision about whether to choose a trans. exp. (on regular #DecisionTheory), but what about on behalf of others?

1. You can take their rook or their queen. (Premise)
2. A queen is worth more than a rook. (Premise)
3. They will move their queen (somewhere it cannot be taken). (from 1 and 2)
4. You will not take their queen. (from 3)
5. If you will not take their queen, they will move their rook. (Premise)
6. They will move their rook. (from 4 and 5)
7. You can look forward to winning a queen. (from 1 and 6)

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#philosophy #decisiontheory #logic #paradox #puzzle

Recently came across this argument and love it, click the link if you want to know why you should choose worse options.

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#philosophy #decisiontheory @philosophy

I use apps like this for academic community, esp. #academicphilosophy.

If you are a student, teacherer, research, faculty around #academic #philosophy of any kind and/or #gender (i.e. gender and women studies, womens' studies, gender studies, etc.), #sts, #legaltheory and #jurisprudence, #criticalrace, #historyofscience, #politicaltheory, #decisiontheory, #disabilitystudies, or something akin to these areas in the social sciences + humanities, I want to find you and get your toots in my feed!

Noticed the name of Rapoport in @neauoire 's wiki and because he was mentioned on #decisionTheory class, so I quickly looked up what he did, and gosh, why the heck did our teacher not talk more about his work???