trist comments on From "Coulda" and "Woulda" to "Shoulda": Predicting Decisions to Minimize Regret for Partially Rational Agents - Less Wrong

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Comment author: trist 17 June 2014 01:27:47AM -1 points [-]

(idle bemusement)

Does an optimal superintelligence regret? They know they couldn't have made a better choice given its past information about the environment. How is regret useful in that case?

Comment author: [deleted] 17 June 2014 08:30:42AM 0 points [-]

An optimal superintelligence has a regret probability of , and it's not actually useful. This regret construction is meant to construct loss functions for strictly non-optimal agents.