Wei_Dai comments on The Absent-Minded Driver - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 16 September 2009 08:46:05PM 0 points [-]

Does UDT require that you look at the consequences of doing something p% of the time (irrespective of which ones), on all problems?

No, UDT (at least in my formulation) requires that you look at all possible input-output mappings, and choose the one that is optimal. In this case it so happens that any function that returns "EXIT" for 1/3 of inputs is optimal.