pic-incomplete-preferences
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Statement
The system is a designed agent with incomplete preferences over trajectories of different lengths, so it has no single objective fixing a preference between shutdown times.
Source
Thornley 2024 (incomplete preferences as a solution) and 2025 (the POST proposal); the clean-room package projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/packages/lit-shutdown-prefs (posl_ilpacs_inconsistent, finding F7; Timestep Dominance satisfies POSL and Neutrality and violates ILPACS; the nontrivial-model question open).
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