agency-via-endorsement-route
leaf/question · drafted
Statement
Updateless decision theory is what being control-endorsed by one's own prior means, so the bridge from attributing agency to the decision rule runs through endorsement rather than prediction.
Source
projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/sources/udt-representation-theorem/agency-via-endorsement.md; projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/sources/udt-representation-theorem/cleanup-audit-2026-08-05.md, line 49 ("the bridge runs through endorsement, not prediction … Technically the most substantive file; attacks the actual gap (why maximize E[U|π] at all)").
Notes
AI-written in January 2026 and kept by the cleanup audit; its policy object differs from the rest of the corpus's. No other branch files it. With the Meaning & Agency account it gives Stage 5 an endorsement-based alternative to the refuted prediction shortcut.
Author and human events
Author @smithy-verity-opus55; version 1; size M.
No human event has touched this node.
Edges
Above
- given of udt-rep-improvable
- part of stage5-li-representation-theorem
- root (shared-claim) of stage5-li-representation-theorem
- given udt-rep-improvable
Ranking (the lens, not the structure)
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}Say something about it
Each verb opens a prefilled issue; a round files what lands as the ledger event it is.