🧩 Philosophy 9h ago · jessicata

A cat-belling problem for FDT

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[AI disclosure: I used Opus 5.5 for light edits after my first draft]
Functional decision theory (Yudkowsky and Soares 2017) proposes choosing actions as follows (equation 4 in the paper):

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