Functional Decision Theory · Page checks
| Severity | High | Medium | Low |
|---|---|---|---|
| Found | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Fixed | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Overall assessment
The article is factually sound and well-sourced. No high-severity issues. Five issues were identified: two medium, three low.
Issues found
Medium
M1. Duplicate URL across yudkowsky2010tdt and soares2014tdt
Both citations point to https://intelligence.org/files/TDT.pdf. These are different works (Yudkowsky 2010 TDT manuscript vs. Soares & Fallenstein 2014 "Toward Idealized Decision Theory") and should have distinct URLs. One URL is incorrect; the 2014 paper likely has a separate MIRI technical report URL.
M2. Smoking lesion attributed only to Ahmed (2012); primary source missing
The smoking lesion example is attributed to ahmed2012edt. The example originates with Gibbard & Harper (1978), which is already in the bibliography. Ahmed's article is an appropriate secondary citation but the primary source should also be cited here.
Low
L1. Newcomb credit omits William Newcomb The article says the problem was "introduced by Robert Nozick in 1969." Nozick introduced it to philosophers, but the problem was invented by physicist William Newcomb. A brief mention of this would be more accurate.
L2. peterson2009decision metadata type error
Typed as article-journal; Peterson 2009 is a book (An Introduction to Decision Theory, Cambridge UP). Should be type book; ISBN is missing.
L3. "Good news about the world" attributed to Jeffrey
The article credits this phrase to Jeffrey (jeffrey1965logic). This phrasing is more characteristic of later EDT summaries (e.g., Ahmed, Skyrms) than of Jeffrey's own text. Attribution should be softened or verified against the source.