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feedback-generality-tradeoff

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A formal model exhibits a trade-off between the generality of an agent's feedback, output-only against more general, and what it can learn, in the setting of Bayesian logical induction, the reflection principle and radical probabilism.

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projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/sources/references/bli/logseq-journals/bli-journal-2026-02-19-huttegger-reflection.md on "a formal model that says something about a trade-off between the generality of your feedback (output-only vs more general" and the evidence partition assumption, in conversation with Huttegger's reflection.

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