Vladimir_Nesov comments on Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 August 2009 01:10AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 August 2009 11:49:01PM 0 points [-]

Conceptually, I treat logical uncertainty as I do prior+utility, a representation of preference, in this more general case over mathematical structures. The problems of representing this preference compactly and extracting human preference don't hinder these particular explorations.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 20 August 2009 12:02:42AM 0 points [-]

I don't understand this yet. Can you explain in more detail what is a general (noncompact) way to representing logical uncertainty?