Tyrrell_McAllister comments on UDT agents as deontologists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 10 June 2010 04:09:35AM *  1 point [-]

I don't claim that it helps us to understand UDT as a decision theory. It is a way to anthropomorphize UDT agents to get an intuitively-graspable sense of what it might "feel like to be" a UDT agent with a particular utility function U over worlds.