cousin_it comments on Common mistakes people make when thinking about decision theory - Less Wrong

40 Post author: cousin_it 27 March 2012 08:03PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 28 March 2012 09:46:17PM 0 points [-]

What if we rewarded you for adopting FAI as your primary motivation? :)

That sounds sideways. Wouldn't that make the reward my primary motivation? =)

Comment author: Wei_Dai 28 March 2012 10:19:57PM 4 points [-]

No, I mean what if we offered you rewards for changing your terminal goals so that you'd continue to be motivated by FAI even after the rewards end? You should take that deal if we can offer big enough rewards and your discount rate is high enough, right? Previous related thread

Comment author: roystgnr 28 March 2012 10:36:59PM 2 points [-]

You're trying to affect the motivation of a decision theory researcher by offering a transaction whose acceptance is itself a tricky decision theory problem?

Upvoted for hilarious metaness.

Now, all we need to do is figure out how humans can modify their own source code and verify those modifications in others...

Comment author: cousin_it 29 March 2012 08:13:52AM *  0 points [-]

That could work, but how would that affect my behavior? We don't seem to have any viable mathematical attacks on FAI-related matters except this one.