Nick_Tarleton comments on UDT agents as deontologists - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Tyrrell_McAllister 10 June 2010 05:01AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 10 June 2010 12:15:12AM 0 points [-]

What is the difference between (1) and (2)? Just an XML tag <actual> that the agent doesn't care about, but sticks onto one of the worlds it considers possible? (Why would it continue spending cycles to compute which world is actual, if it doesn't care?)

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 10 June 2010 12:25:03AM *  0 points [-]

What is the difference between (1) and (2)? Just an XML tag <actual> that the agent doesn't care about, but sticks onto one of the worlds it considers possible?

Basically, yes. (2) is not a view that I advocate.