Blueberry comments on Advice for AI makers - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 14 January 2010 11:32AM

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Comment author: Blueberry 14 January 2010 05:54:30PM 0 points [-]

Can you please elaborate on "trades across universes"? Do you mean something like quantum civilization suicide, as in Nick Bostrom's paper on that topic?

Comment author: Wei_Dai 14 January 2010 07:05:46PM 1 point [-]

Here's Nesov's elaboration of his trading across possible worlds idea.

Personally, I think it's an interesting idea, but I'm skeptical that it can really work, except maybe in very limited circumstances such as when the trading partners are nearly identical.

Comment author: Blueberry 15 January 2010 05:33:43PM 0 points [-]

Cool, thanks!