Funding Source of Cited Paper Sparks Debate on Decision Theory and RL History

A cited paper funded by the Center for Long-Term Risk sparked discussion over its social context and possible "phyg" influence, while jessicata traced early literature linking causal decision theory to reinforcement learning, from Newcomb's problem to POMDPs.

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