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The Expected-Utility Reply

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The expected-utility reply: an act is judged by the outcomes a well-informed agent could reasonably expect, not by omniscience.

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Medicine works this way already: a treatment is right on the evidence in hand, and a freak reaction does not convict the careful doctor.

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