lukeprog comments on BOOK DRAFT: 'Ethics and Superintelligence' (part 1, revised) - Less Wrong

14 Post author: lukeprog 22 February 2011 08:59PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 22 February 2011 11:42:50PM 1 point [-]

The first point is made in paragraph #1:

"Timeless decision theory (TDT) is an extension of causal decision networks that compactly represents uncertainty about correlated computational processes and represents the decision-maker as such a process."

The second point is made in paragraph #2:

"I show that an evidential or causal decision-maker capable of self-modifying actions, given a choice between remaining an evidential or causal decision-maker and modifying itself to imitate a timeless decision-maker, will choose to imitate a timeless decisionmaker on a large class of problems."

http://singinst.org/upload/TDT-v01o.pdf

Comment author: SilasBarta 22 February 2011 11:51:45PM *  0 points [-]

I'm familiar with the link. I suggested adding the page number because that affords significant ease to finding the passage you claim is present, even given the pdf file.

Edit: To avoid this passive-aggressive beating around the bush: the part you've posted so far gives off the vibe of bibliography padding. You've done a great service to LW in your articles reminding everyone of the importance of building off the work of others. But if there's a specific claim the author makes that you're relying on, it helps establish relevance and make things easy on the reader if you are more specific than just citing the whole work

Comment author: lukeprog 22 February 2011 11:55:04PM 0 points [-]

Pages 2 and 3.