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Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Functional Side Effects - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: Coscott 14 January 2014 08:22PM

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 16 January 2014 11:09:16PM 0 points [-]

This seems very similar to what I named "UDT2" on the decision theory mailing list.

I never really got why UDT2 wasn't just a special case of UDT1, in which the set of outputs was restricted to outputs of the form "Turn into program T at time t". (This was Vladimir Nesov's immediate response on the mailing list.) I suppose that there should also be a corresponding "UDT2.1", in which the agent instead chooses among all input-output maps mapping inputs to outputs of the form "Turn into program T at time t".