LessWrong post argues FDT is difficult-to-impossible to specify due to logical counterfactuals
jessi_cata · x · 2026-10-26
A new LessWrong post, "A cat-belling problem for FDT," argues that Functional Decision Theory is difficult-to-impossible to specify given the problem of computational logical counterfactuals — a substantive technical challenge to FDT's viability as a decision theory.
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