endoself comments on Consequentialism Need Not Be Nearsighted - Less Wrong

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Comment author: endoself 31 August 2011 06:27:00AM 2 points [-]

TDT seems to sometimes fail this, depending on whether the other scenario counts as the 'same computation', whatever that means. UDT postulates the existence of a 'mathematical intuition module' that can tell which computations influence which others, but it is not known how such a module could be created. Developing one would probably constitute a large fraction of the difficulty of creating AGI.