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Statement

The self-reflective agent's reasoning about low-probability actions causes no problem of the 5-and-10 kind once it is mostly confident of its source code, or the problems it causes are solved by conditional oracles, by counterfactuals, or by abandoning counterfactuals as bounded inductive rationality does.

Source

projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/sources/unbounded-embedded/01-primary/summer-research-plan-2026--research-ideas-may-2026.md: "Can this cause any problems? If so, can these problems be solved, eg with"; "Can this idea cause problems in Cole's framework? Do Cole's carefully constructed oracles avoid it?"

projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/packages/uea-sink-swim/uea-sink-swim-findings.md: ""the floor is a chicken rule""

Notes

Lab thread T3. The clean room records the floor at Instance B as not a plain fixed point, 'the floor is a chicken rule' (FiveTen.instB_floored_not_plain), as the first step of T3a; T3b, a Troll Bridge analogue, is open and is the task uea-troll-bridge-search, on which this question conditions.

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