CCC comments on Skill: The Map is Not the Territory - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 October 2012 09:59AM

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Comment author: CCC 11 October 2012 07:07:27AM 1 point [-]

Oh, that's sneaky.

Perhaps a perfect agent should occasionally - very occasionally - perturb a random selection of its own priors by some very small factor (10^-10 or smaller) in order to avoid such a potential mathematical dead end?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 12 October 2012 12:56:37AM 0 points [-]

Nice try, but random perturbations won't help here.

Comment author: CCC 12 October 2012 07:15:49AM 0 points [-]

I think that this re-emphasises the importance of good priors.