Pragmatic FDT, and predictors as game theory

Decision theory is back in fashion (defining fashion as "one good post on a good EA blog"). Bentham's Bulldog (BB) has published a case against FDT ( functional decision theory ), contrasting rationalist enthusiasm with academic scepticism: " Academic decision theorists don't like the theory. The number of academic decision theorists who adopt it could be counted on one hand by someone missing four of their fingers. " I am, just barely, a published academic decision theorist , so you can keep a small finger to count me too. My position is that, though FDT may have problems with its definitions