Eugine_Nier comments on Siren worlds and the perils of over-optimised search - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 09 April 2014 01:39:28AM 3 points [-]

The more I think about this, the more I'm confused. I don't see how this adds any substance to the claim that we don't know how to write down our values.

This proposes a way to get an OK result even if we don't quite write down our values correctly.

Comment author: lavalamp 09 April 2014 06:39:18PM 0 points [-]

Ah, thank you for the explanation. I have complained about the proposed method in another comment. :)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/jao/siren_worlds_and_the_perils_of_overoptimised/aso6