I believe they way it works is that FDT tells you to make the bad decision (here: suicide) if faced with the actual situation, but the argument is that you won't get into the situation at all or less often because you're playing FDT.
By the time you find yourself facing the problem in which FDT recommends killing yourself something's already gone wrong, because the situation ought to be prevented by playing FDT in the first place.
But of course the question always is: should you actually find yourself in the decision problem, despite being an FDT-agent that ...
As an agent when you think about the aspects of the future that you yourself may be able to influence, your predictions have to factor in what actions you will take. But your choices about what actions to take will in turn be influenced by these predictions.
To achieve an equilibrium you are restricted to predicting a future such that your predicting it will not cause you to also predict yourself taking actions that will prevent it (otherwise you would have to change predictions).
Do you have an example for that? It seems to me you're descr...
(I'll admit, there's another reason for programmers to want to use AI even if it did make them worse at their jobs: it outsources some of the most unpleasant programming labor, so even if it's slower, it's worth it in the eyes of a programmer because their experience of programming feels better when they use AI because they didn't spend a lot of time doing tasks they didn't enjoy doing, like typing out the code changes they already figured out in their head.)
Basically that's proposing to take the programmer job description and move it from hands-on w...
I though the answer was "assume you're simulated and follow FDT to save real-you the trouble of ever getting into this situation in real life". Out of the all arguments to take the bomb this is the only one I've ever heard which I can at least understand where it's coming from.
If that is not the FDT response then, I guess I don't know why you'd ever really blow yourself up. I did read the whole post, including rereading the example against just now.
But what I got from it was mostly the insight that FDT kind of answers a different question than CDT, in that it's goal is to shape what situations you end up in, not necessarily how to get the best result out of a given situation.