"Otherwise it would commit suicide"... another proof via "ohh otherwise it will do something that I believe is dumb".
If the AIXI kills it's model of physical itself inside it's world model, it's actual self inside the real world keeps running and can still calculate rewards.
Furthermore, ponder this question: will it rape or will it masturbate? (sorry for sexual analogy but the reproductive imperative is probably best human example here) It can prove the reward value is same. It won't even distinguish those two.
I was wondering - what fraction of people here agree with Holden's advice regarding donations, and his arguments? What fraction assumes there is a good chance he is essentially correct? What fraction finds it necessary to determine whenever Holden is essentially correct in his assessment, before working on counter argumentation, acknowledging that such investigation should be able to result in dissolution or suspension of SI?
It would seem to me, from the response, that the chosen course of action is to try to improve the presentation of the argument, rather than to try to verify truth values of the assertions (with the non-negligible likelihood of assertions being found false instead). This strikes me as very odd stance.
Ultimately: why SI seems certain that it has badly presented some valid reasoning, rather than tried to present some invalid reasoning?
edit: I am interested in knowing why people agree/disagree with Holden, and what likehood they give to him being essentially correct, rather than a number or a ratio (that would be subject to selection bias).