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Statement

The decision-problems formal core, trees over decision points with subjective states in Jeffrey–Bolker–Joyce format, calibration, consistency and coherence, reaches the next revision of Coherent Care, in which the UDT-versus-EDT compatibilism dispute has a statement collaborators can check, by at least one of: its v2 propositions machine-checked with calibration defended as a fairness condition; a v3 with trembling-hand calibration grounded in learning; its open questions Q1 to Q12 answered or reformulated.

Source

projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/sources/unbounded-embedded/01-primary/summer-research-plan-2026--research-ideas-may-2026.md, section What is a decision problem? (the note's aim, quoted on optimality-is-subject-matter): to make systematized-winning arguments clear in a way that avoids "rich by whose measure?".

projects/decision-theory/decision-problems-note-dump-2026-10-01/decision-problems-v2.md, section 1: "Working notes toward a revision of Coherent Care." projects/decision-theory/decision-problems-note-dump-2026-10-01/ORIGIN.md (the v2 and v2.1 passes). The post: Coherent Care (LessWrong, 2026-02-27).

Notes

The fourth mid-level goal, the decision-problems line. Filed as an or over the ways the repository's work advances it; the literal evaluation says how far the core as stated has got, and its improvement claim formal-core-improvable is where the research value sits. Three AI workflow runs (cf, sl, two-lesions) and sixteen clean-room dp packages stand on the core. Shared with the abstraction arc, whose Stage 6 continues Coherent Care; that branch links this node by id.

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