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Thanks for the link! I'll read the paper more thoroughly later, a quick skim suggests it is along the same lines. Are there any cases where DBDT and TDT give different answers?
Well, we have a lengthy description of the revised DBDT - so that should hopefully help figure out what its predicted actions are.
The author claims it gets both the The Smoking-Cancer Problem and Newcomb’s problem right - which seems to be a start.