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For example, [10h an agent with a utility function that only values paperclips] will construct successors that only value paperclips, so having a paperclip utility function is "reflectively stable" (and [goals_reflectively_stable so are most other utility functions]). Contrast "[2rb reflectively consistent]".]\n\nAn [2c agent] is "reflectively stable" in some regard, if having a choice of how to construct a successor agent or modify its own code, the agent will *only* construct a successor that thinks similarly in that regard.\n\n- In [1mq tiling agent theory], an [ expected utility satisficer] is reflectively *consistent*, since it will approve of building another EU satisficer, but an EU satisficer is not reflectively *stable*, since it may also approve of building an expected utility maximizer (it expects the consequences of building the maximizer to satisfice).\n- Having a [1fw utility function] that [10h only weighs paperclips] is "reflectively stable" because paperclip maximizers *only* try to build other paperclip maximizers.\n\nIf, thinking the way you currently do (in some regard), it seems unacceptable to not think that way (in that regard), then you are reflectively stable (in that regard).\n\n[todo: untangle possible confusion about 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