shminux comments on Transcript: "Choice Machines, Causality, and Cooperation" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 08 August 2012 02:15:56AM *  5 points [-]

This presentation is a pretty good description of some of the basic points oft discussed here:

  • An algorithm feels like free will from the inside and Omega has the outside view, and so cannot be gamed.

  • Ethics is a set of reusable computational shortcuts.

  • Fully recursive reasoning compels cooperation between symmetric agents.

I guess all these points bear repeating, given how counter-intuitive they appear. Using a simple fully deterministic world to present them, without any quantum or random muddiness of our world is a nice touch.