timtyler comments on [LINK] Report on the Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 03 September 2011 06:39:48PM 3 points [-]

The 2011 Solomonoff AGI Theory Prize – named in honor of AGI pioneer Ray Solomonoff, who passed away in 2010 — was awarded to Laurent Orseau and Mark Ring, for a pair of papers titled Self-Modification and Mortality in Artificial Agents and Delusion, Survival, and Intelligent Agents.

Comment author: timtyler 04 September 2011 08:00:28PM *  1 point [-]

My page on the topic: http://alife.co.uk/essays/the_wirehead_problem/

Laurent Orseau's blog post about it; Mortal Universal Agents.

Comment author: gwern 04 September 2011 08:18:31PM 0 points [-]

The blog post is a very nice summary; I think I understood all that from reading the 2 papers, but I wasn't sure I had not missed anything important.