Comment on General purpose intelligence: arguing the Orthogonality thesis

Wed, 16 May 2012 23:30:22 GMT

Ah, yes, I agree that CDT would modify to XDT rather than TDT, though the fact that it self modifies at all shows that goal driven agents can change decision theories because the new decision theory helps it achieve its goal. I do think that it's important to consider how a particular decision theory can decide to self modify, and to design an agent with a decision theory that can self modify in good ways.

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