timtyler comments on Notion of Preference in Ambient Control - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 09 October 2010 03:34:31PM *  0 points [-]

(The impossible item.) Given an agent program, define its preference.

If you have the agent's program, you already have a pretty comprehensive model of it. It is harder to infer preferences from behaviour. That's the problem Tim Freeman addressed here.