Geometric UDT — LessWrong
This post owes credit to discussions with Caspar Oesterheld, Scott Garrabrant, Sahil, Daniel Kokotajlo, Martín Soto, Chi Nguyen, Lukas Finnveden, Viv…
x Geometric UDT — LessWrong Decision theory Open-Minded Updatelessness Updateless Decision Theory Value Learning Rationality Frontpage 29 Geometric UDT by abramdemski 6th Nov 2025 AI Alignment Forum 8 min read 10 29 Ω 17 This post owes credit to discussions with Caspar Oesterheld, Scott Garrabrant, Sahil, Daniel Kokotajlo, Martín Soto, Chi Nguyen, Lukas Finnveden, Vivek Hebbar, Mikhail Samin, and Diffractor. Inspired in particular by a discussion with cousin_it . Short version: The idea here is to combine the Nash bargaining solution with Wei Dai's UDT to give an explicit model of some ideas f
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