Jandila comments on The Human's Hidden Utility Function (Maybe) - Less Wrong

44 Post author: lukeprog 23 January 2012 07:39PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 January 2012 08:11:25PM 29 points [-]

Or, to put it more simply:

  1. Figure out what's going on, and what actions maximize returns, and do them.
  2. Do the thingy that worked before again!
  3. Avoid the unpleasant thing and go to the pleasant thing. Repeat as necessary.
Comment author: shminux 23 January 2012 09:22:15PM 5 points [-]

Maybe give Luke a lesson or two on C^3 (clear, concise and catchy) summaries.

Comment author: lukeprog 23 January 2012 10:05:34PM 0 points [-]

Note that I wrote this post in two hours flat and made little attempt to optimize presentation in this case.

Comment author: shminux 23 January 2012 10:58:36PM *  10 points [-]

Sorry, I did not intend my comment to rub you the wrong way (or any of my previous comments that might have). FWIW, I think that you are doing a lot of good stuff for the SIAI, probably most of it invisible to an ordinary forum regular. I realize that you cannot afford spending extra two hours per post on polishing the message. Hopefully one of the many skills of your soon-to-be-hired executive assistant will be that of "optimizing presentation".

Comment author: lukeprog 23 January 2012 10:59:51PM 5 points [-]

No worries!

Comment author: MACHISMO 26 January 2012 09:49:01PM 4 points [-]

Indeed. Much invisible work is required before optimization can occur. Invisible forging of skills precedes their demonstration.

Comment author: lukeprog 26 January 2012 05:56:18PM 3 points [-]

For my own reference, here are the posts I tried to write well:

Comment author: TheOtherDave 26 January 2012 07:01:43PM 1 point [-]

It might be an interesting exercise to record predictions in a hidden-but-reliable form about karma of posts six months out, by way of calibrating one's sense of how well-received those posts will be to their target community.

Comment author: Swimmer963 23 January 2012 11:29:08PM 0 points [-]

It's still better than the posts I write in 2 hours! Did that 2 hours include the time spent researching, or were you just citing sources you'd already read for other reasons? In either case...not bad.

Comment author: lukeprog 23 January 2012 08:25:30PM 5 points [-]

Added to the original post, credit given.

Comment author: JoachimSchipper 24 January 2012 12:11:02PM 4 points [-]

Could you put it before the hard-to-parse explanations? It was nice to confirm my understanding, but it would have saved me a minute or two of effort if you'd put those first.

Comment author: Yvain 24 January 2012 04:02:27AM *  2 points [-]

Is 2 operant/Skinnerian conditioning, and 3 classical/Pavolvian conditioning?

Comment author: [deleted] 24 January 2012 07:44:46AM 3 points [-]

If by "is" you mean "Do these correspond the underlying cognitive antecedents used in...", then my answer is "it would seem so."

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