RichardKennaway comments on Time to See If We Can Apply Anything We Have Learned - Less Wrong

1 Post author: MichaelVassar 18 June 2009 10:06AM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 18 June 2009 01:31:56PM *  1 point [-]

What is "RDS"?

From context, Reflective Decision Theory, and from googling that, decision theory for self-modifying systems, a central problem for any theory of intelligence, human or artificial. However, Google only turns up calls for such a thing to exist, not any actual theory. Is Michael Vassar calling for us to use these examples as a concrete case study from which to work towards an RDS? Or simply to bring scientific method to bear on these examples?

If cousin_it has accurately located the material that Michael was referring to, I'll add my recent citing of PCT/MOL as a fourth contender.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 18 June 2009 04:13:02PM 1 point [-]

No formal theory exists, but we always use an implicit reflective decision theory when, for instance, allocating attention and effort to decision making.