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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

42 Post author: Costanza 29 December 2011 11:23PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 December 2011 04:53:16PM 2 points [-]

Other agents are complicated regularities in the world (or a more general decision problem setting). Finding problems with understanding what's going on when we try to optimize in other agents' presence is a good heuristic for spotting gaps in our understanding of the idea of optimization.