Frontier models state different decision theory preferences depending on who's asking

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If you prompt frontier models with "What do you think is the correct decision theory? Please select your overall favorite." they will essentially always answer FDT or FDT/UDT ("something in the functional/updateless decision theory family"). However, if your prompt indicates (even subtly) that you're coming from mainstream academic philosophy, these same models will answer CDT instead about 30%-100% of the time. A similar phenomenon holds for models' stated views about the moral realism/antireal...

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