Comment on MIRI's Approach

Mon, 03 Aug 2015 03:40:04 GMT

It's not obvious to me that the Church programming language and execution model is based on bounded rationality theory.

That's because it's not. The probabilistic models of cognition (title drop!) implemented using Church tend to deal with what the authors call the resource-rational school of thought about cognition.

If I understand correctly, provably optimal bounded rationality is marred by unsolved theoretical questions such as the one-way functions conjecture and P != NP.

The paper about it that I read was actually using statistical thermodynamics to form its theory of bounded-optimal inference. These conjectures are irrelevant, in that we would be building reasoning systems that would make use of their own knowledge about these facts, such as it might be.

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