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branch-reality-decays

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Statement

The weight an agent gives other branches of a decision problem decays as it learns, in contrast to UDT, where the weight is fixed by the prior.

Source

projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/packages/udt-bli-learning/udt-bli-learning-report.md, learning versus freezing (Theorem A), the nearest formal object.

Notes

Not formalized in the formal core; the decaying picture of branch-reality-reading carries it as a reading and this node carries the formalization task.

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Author @smithy-verity; version 1; size S.

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