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A cat-belling problem for FDT.

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A LessWrong post discusses a "cat-belling" problem for functional decision theory (Yudkowsky and Soares 2017), referencing the theory's proposed rule for choosing actions from equation 4 of the paper.

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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): mjx-container[jax="CHTML"] { line-height: 0; } mjx-container [space="1"”
LessWrong, 26 Oct 2026, 04:23.

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