potato comments on Towards a New Decision Theory for Parallel Agents - Less Wrong

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Comment author: potato 08 August 2011 06:35:17AM *  1 point [-]

But there is some part that wants nicotine, and as such wants the body to have a cig, and some part that doesn't want to die, and as such wants the body to avoid smoking, that's all that's required.

Comment author: TrE 08 August 2011 06:30:36PM 1 point [-]

Well, the connection between "I want to live" and "I'm probably going to die earlier if I smoke" has to be drewn somewhere, and if this requires an extra agent, things get more complicated. The brain is a mess anyway, I just wanted to make the remark that it might be even messier than it appears at a second look.