My impression (based in part on this humorous piece) is that FDT is primarily a better formulation than UDT & TDT, but doesn’t necessarily make better decisions.
Functional decision theory has been developed in many parts through (largely unpublished) dialogue between a number of collaborators. FDT is a generalization of Dai’s (2009) “updateless decision theory” and a successor to the “timeless decision theory” of Yudkowsky (2010).
My impression (based in part on this humorous piece) is that FDT is primarily a better formulation than UDT & TDT, but doesn’t necessarily make better decisions.
Ah. And the paper says (emphasis mine)