Vladimir_Golovin comments on A Sense That More Is Possible - Less Wrong

61 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 March 2009 01:15AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 13 March 2009 12:48:17PM 13 points [-]

An idea on how to make the execution part trivial – a rational planner should treat his own execution module as a part of the external environment, not as a part of 'himself'. This approach will produce plans that take into account the inefficiencies of one's execution module and plan around them.

Comment author: thomblake 13 March 2009 09:15:22PM 4 points [-]

I hope you realize this is potentially recursive, if this 'execution module' happens to be instrumental to rationality. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 14 March 2009 06:32:52PM 3 points [-]

No, I don't (yet) -- could you please elaborate on this?

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 24 March 2013 01:21:43AM 0 points [-]

Funny how this got rerun on the same day as EY posted about progress on Löb's problem.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 13 March 2009 09:12:14PM 3 points [-]

Well, ideally one considers the whole of themselves when doing the calculations, but it does make the calculations tricky.

And that still doesn't answer exactly how to take it into account. ie, "okay, I need to take into account the properties of my execution module, find ways to actually get it to do stuff. How?"

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 13 March 2009 09:25:02PM *  1 point [-]

However, treating the execution module as external and fixed may demotivate attempts to improve it.

(Related: Chaotic Inversion)