Vladimir_Nesov comments on A model of UDT with a halting oracle - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 January 2012 05:39:11PM 0 points [-]

Part of the motivation was to avoid specifying agents as algorithms, specifying them as (more general) propositions about actions instead. It's unclear to me how to combine this with possibility of reasoning about such agents (by other agents).

Comment author: cousin_it 12 January 2012 06:32:50PM *  0 points [-]

That's very speculative, I don't remember any nontrivial results in this vein so far. Maybe the writeup shouldn't need to wait until this gets cleared up.