fetidodor comments on Talking to Children: A Pre-Holiday Guide - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fetidodor 21 December 2011 12:19:18AM -1 points [-]

This does not sound believable to me. I very much doubt that a perfect agent would find these sorts of questions to be well-defined. It sounds like you're talking about the likelihood of a bulkhead failure or something completely technical ... when this is not technical at all.

Comment author: TimS 21 December 2011 12:34:19AM 2 points [-]

The amount of input my son puts into choosing his clothes is zero (because he's not even two). When he's older, the proportion of the clothing selection process that's based on his input is highly likely to increase. An agent can't measure or estimate the proportion for a particular child? An agent can't (or shouldn't) change her interaction with a child based on the estimate proportion?