shminux comments on Update Then Forget - Less Wrong

9 Post author: royf 17 January 2013 06:36PM

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Comment author: shminux 18 January 2013 05:20:37PM 0 points [-]

What's a perfect agent? No one is infallible, except the Pope.

Comment author: DSimon 06 February 2013 02:17:51PM 2 points [-]

And even the Pope only claims to be infallible under certain carefully delineated conditions.

Comment author: Sengachi 20 January 2013 10:35:58AM 1 point [-]

And as the tired old joke goes: bullet-proof glass.

Comment author: royf 18 January 2013 06:31:59PM *  0 points [-]

This is a perfect agent, of theoretical interest if not practically realizable.

Comment author: timtyler 27 January 2013 02:20:48AM *  0 points [-]

Assigning a probability to each possible world state?!? That is incredibly inefficient and wasteful. Any implementation attempt would result in slow stupidity - not anything intelligent.