V_V comments on Newcomblike problems are the norm - Less Wrong

39 Post author: So8res 24 September 2014 06:41PM

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Comment author: V_V 28 September 2014 03:37:18PM *  0 points [-]

Then AIXI ensemble will be dominated by programs which associate "real world" percepts and actions to predicted rewards.

The point is that there is no way, short of actually running the (physically impossible) experiment, that we can tell whether the behavior of this AIXI agent will be consistent with CDT, EDT, or something else entirely.