timtyler 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: timtyler 20 August 2009 06:39:09AM -2 points [-]

The most obvious reply to the point about dispositions to have dispositions is to take a behavourist stance: if a disposition results in particular actions under particular circumstances, then a disposition to have a disposition (plus the ability to self-modify) is just another type of disposition, really.