The Disutility of FDT: on Utility Functions and Voting, Insights from Behavioral Economics and Decision Theory

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I apologize for the (mild) clickbait, I will do my best to justify it later. As an introductory note, this discussion is principally motivated by a previous discussion of decision theory given by Yudkowsky and Soares in their various writings, including their paper, and here on the wiki. I am going to discuss in the context of the three decision theories outlined in the wiki (causal decision theory (CDT) evidentiary decision theory (FDT), and logical decision theory (LDT)). I will try to cover c...

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