Vladimir_Nesov comments on Explicit Optimization of Global Strategy (Fixing a Bug in UDT1) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 February 2010 07:55:34PM *  0 points [-]

It's misleading when you are calling efficient decision-making "fairness". It's not about giving the poor an equal share, it's about making sure you get the best deal there is. (And such an algorithm should be able to play arbitrary games not just against other copies of itself -- by the way, what exactly is a copy is we don't have a formal setting?)

Comment author: cousin_it 19 February 2010 08:03:16PM *  0 points [-]

Completely agreed on first point, I view it as something like "fairness according to bargaining power".

what exactly is a copy is we don't have a formal setting?

In a problem this hard, I still consider full source code visibility a reasonable starting point. I'll be very suspicious if a proposed solution works in some other formal setting but doesn't work under full source visibility.