Vladimir_Nesov comments on Notes on logical priors from the MIRI workshop - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 16 September 2013 09:52:26PM *  2 points [-]

(Btw, I think it should be mentioned that a central piece of motivation for this "logical counterfactuals" thing is that it's probably the same construction that's needed to evaluate possible actions in normal cases, without any contrived coins, for an agent that knows its own program. So for example although a counterfactual scenario can't easily "lead" to two different actions, two different actions in that scenario can still be considered as possibly even more (easily shown to be) contradictory "logical counterfactuals" that include additional assumptions about what the action is.)