Naming a Successor to FDT: The 'Logical' Mislabel Fight Goes On
OrionJohnston · x · 2026-11-10
OrionJohnston replies to jessicata, asking how to phrase "they are mistaken about the role of dependency hypotheses and so came up with a theory which confusingly labels them 'logical'." He disputes the claimed terminology split over "cause": non-backtracking is standard, but interventionist causation is usually understood as an alternative to physical causation. The thread is an alignment-community argument over FDT's conceptual foundations and how a successor theory should be named.