Emile comments on Positioning oneself to make a difference - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 19 August 2010 02:01:10PM 3 points [-]

(It can also be thought of as a 'dumb' version of utility maximization, where the utility of every possibility is set to 1).

No, this gives a utility of 1 to every action. You have to find some way to explicitly encode for the diversity of options available to your future self.

Comment author: Emile 19 August 2010 02:20:04PM 1 point [-]

If you're programming a chess AI, that would translate into a heuristic for the "expected utility" of a position as a function of the number of moves you can make in that position (in addition to also being a function of the number of pieces other player have).