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| | | | | A Critique of Functional Decision Theory There's a long-running issue where many in the rationality community take functional decision theory (and its variants) very seriously, but the academic decision theory community does not. But there's been little public discussion of FDT from academic decision theorists (one exception is here); this note attempts to partly address this gap. So that there's a clear object of discussion, I'm going to focus on Yudkowsky and Soares' 'Functional Decision Theory' (which I'll refer to as Y&S), though I also read a revised version of Soares and Levinstein's Cheating Death in Damascus. | |
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disagreeableme.blogspot.com
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| | | | | The anthropic principle has been much discussed and it is likely that you have already come across it. It's a strange and counter-intuit... | |
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joecarlsmith.com
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| | | | | Final essay in a four-part series, explaining why I think that one prominent approach to anthropic reasoning (the "Self-Indication Assumption" or "SIA") is better than another (the "Self-Sampling Assumption" or "SSA"). This part discusses some prominent objections to SIA. | |
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www.qri.org
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| | | Content Warning: Trying to understand the contents of this essay may be mindwarping. Proceed with caution. | ||
