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I scanned it. My initial reactions:
Alas, I totally failed to see the claimed "strange singularity at the heart of decision theory".
My favourite bit was probably the speculations about agent boundaries - starting on p.108. Alas, from my POV, no mention of the wirehead problem.
Update 2011-06-26 regarding the new version. The bit that reads:
...seems to have been deleted, and 3 pages worth of references have been added. The document seems to have had negligible additions, though - the bit on p.108 has moved back onto page 107. There seem to be a few more extra lines at the end about how "change" is a harmful concept in decision theory.