Wei_Dai comments on Decision theory: Why Pearl helps reduce “could” and “would”, but still leaves us with at least three alternatives - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 10 September 2009 04:07:58PM *  3 points [-]

Ok, that's much clearer, and while I don't know if I agree with you completely, there's nothing you said that I object to.

I think confusion arose in the first place because you interpreted "platonic computation" to mean the denotational semantics of a computation, whereas Eliezer (and others) were using it to refer to the "abstract neural-network computation" as opposed to the "physics computation" involving wavefunctions and such, or the "physical world" with physical particles/wavefunctions (whatever that means).