Skeptityke comments on Utility vs Probability: idea synthesis - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 March 2015 12:30PM

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Comment author: Skeptityke 28 March 2015 05:31:58PM 1 point [-]

"But the general result is that one can start with an AI with utility/probability estimate pair (u,P) and map it to an AI with pair (u',P) which behaves similarly to (u,P')"

Is this at all related to the Loudness metric mentioned in this paper? https://intelligence.org/files/LoudnessPriors.pdf It seems like the two are related... (in terms of probability and utility blending together into a generalized "importance" or "loudness" parameter)

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 30 March 2015 12:48:47PM 1 point [-]

Is this at all related to the Loudness metric mentioned in this paper?

Not really. They're only connected in that they both involve scaling of utilities (but in one case, scaling of whole utilities, in this case, scaling of portions of the utility).