Vladimir_Nesov comments on AIXI and Existential Despair - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 December 2011 05:16:41PM 0 points [-]

So although Model 2 may make up most of the probability mass, it contributes nothing important to the expected value computation determining A's actions.

Given this fact, I couldn't follow the discussion of A's tendency to believe Model 2 in "approximate AIXI" section. Model 2 doesn't have any effect, so why worry about its probability? What matters is relative probability of models that do depend on their arguments.

Comment author: paulfchristiano 09 December 2011 09:18:10PM 0 points [-]

There are only slightly more complicated models (e.g. Model 3) which are indistinguishable from model 2 but do depend on their arguments.

If Model 2 is more likely than Model 1, behavior is basically guaranteed to be arbitrary.