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Randaly comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 2 - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: OpenThreadGuy 20 April 2012 07:38PM

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Comment author: Randaly 25 April 2012 04:55:42PM 1 point [-]

I did not understand Wei Dai's explanation of how UDT can reproduce updating when necessary. Can somebody explain this to me in smaller words?

(Showing the actual code that output the predictions in the example, instead of shunting it off in "prediction = S(history)," would probably also be useful. I also don't understand how UDT would react to a simpler example: a quantum coinflip, where U(action A|heads)=0, U(action B|heads)=1, U(action A|tails)=1, U(action B|tails)=0.)