tailcalled comments on Versions of AIXI can be arbitrarily stupid - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 August 2015 01:23PM

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Comment author: tailcalled 11 August 2015 06:00:45PM 2 points [-]

Do you have a better proposal for how to act if you know that you are in either heaven or hell, but don't know which?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 August 2015 09:20:48PM 0 points [-]

Follow your priors. The problem here is that the prior for Hell has been constructed, "artificially", to have unnaturally high probability.

Comment author: tailcalled 12 August 2015 09:35:34PM 1 point [-]

I think my claim was that your example was kinda bad, since it's not obvious that the AI is doing anything wrong, but on reflection I realized that it doesn't really matter, since I can easily generate a better example.