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| 1997 || || || The absent-minded driver problem is introduced (in the same paper as the sleeping beauty?).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lesswrong.com/lw/182/the_absentminded_driver/ |title=The Absent-Minded Driver |date=September 16, 2009 |accessdate=September 10, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Absentminded_driver |title=Absent-Minded driver - Lesswrongwiki |accessdate=September 10, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref>
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| 1999 || {{dts|January 21}} || || Wei Dai posts the first description of what would later be called UDASSA is posted to everything-list.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://riceissa.github.io/everything-list-1998-2009/0316.html |title=Re: consciousness based on information or computation? |date=January 21, 1999 |accessdate=March 6, 2020 |publisher=everything-list |author=Wei Dai}}</ref> UDASSA seems to be a precursor to UDT.<ref>https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/SkXLrDXyHeekqgbFg/shock-level-5-big-worlds-and-modal-realism/comment/yMCxvHCpBqsYEorpt</ref>
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| 2002 || {{dts|July 17}} || || [[wikipedia:Hal Finney (computer scientist)|Hal Finney]], in a mailing list discussion, brings up ideas that according to Wei Dai come "pretty close to some of the ideas behind TDT".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lesswrong.com/lw/b7v/common_mistakes_people_make_when_thinking_about/65zv |title=Wei_Dai comments on Common mistakes people make when thinking about decision theory - Less Wrong |accessdate=September 10, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/everything-list/V0BSqfkwbLo/YcIaaMYs7w0J |title=self-sampling assumption is incorrect |publisher=Google Groups |date=July 17, 2002 |first=Hal |last=Finney |accessdate=September 10, 2017}}</ref>
