Kaj_Sotala comments on Course recommendations for Friendliness researchers - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Louie 09 January 2013 02:33PM

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Comment author: badger 09 January 2013 10:36:36PM *  19 points [-]

The list doesn't include anything in the way of game theory, social choice, or mechanism design, which is going to be crucial for an AI that interacts with other agents or tries to aggregate preferences.

Relevant book recommendations (all available at links as pdfs):

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 10 January 2013 03:46:27PM *  2 points [-]

Agree with this. I haven't read those books, but I know that Public Choice III also contains 100> pages of thorough discussion about how the choice of a voting system influences the way that preferences get aggregated under those systems. Something like that seems like a must-read for Friendliness researchers.