Timeline of decision theory

Abstract

This timeline traces the intellectual developments in decision theory, particularly those made in the search for a timeless, updateless, and acausal theory of decision-making. It begins with Newcomb’s problem in 1969 and ends with proposed solutions presented in 2017’s “Cheating Death in Damascus.” The timeline contains a section describing the development of key problems used to assess the merits of different decision theories. – AI-generated abstract.