Zubon comments on Optimization - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 September 2008 04:00PM

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Comment author: Zubon 15 September 2008 03:10:53PM 1 point [-]

Being Secure is > Working to be secure > Not being secure > being secure

It is not much of a loop unless you repeat it. If the re-Bohemian becomes a re-office worker, we have a loop. Otherwise, we have an experiment that did not work. The actual preferences described sounded more like: (Inaccurate) expected value of being secure > Not being secure > (Actual value of) being secure > Working to be secure where the Bohemian was willing to endure the lowest point to reach the highest point, only to discover his incorrect expectations. I expect, however, that the re-Bohemian period shortly after liquidating everything from the security period will be a lot of fun.