timtyler comments on Open Thread September, Part 3 - Less Wrong
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I think this needs rewriting so it doesn't sound so circular - and only mentions the word "conditional" once.
It seems to me that we can just say that it maximises utility - while maintaining an awareness that there may be other agents running its decision algorithm out there, in addition to all the other things it knows.
I think the stuff about "conditional upon the abstract computation returning that output" is pretty-much implied by the notion of utility maximisation.