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#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion

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The Prognosis of Self Modification

In principle, everyone agrees that you should self modify to stop being a causal decision theorist. In practice, it doesn't seem like the causal decision theorists sort of even try this. I think if we start living in a world where there are a lot of actual digital minds that can be copied and thatsort of are more deterministic than, and they can self modify, this stuff might just become more intuitive.

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