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fdt-functional-identity · yudkowsky2017fdt

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Citation
yudkowsky2017fdt
Claim ID
fdt-functional-identity
Assertion
FDT individuates agents' decisions by their functional role — the abstract procedure mapping situations to actions — rather than by physical implementation, so two physically distinct agents running the same decision procedure are treated as making the same choice.
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