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9 Post author: paulfchristiano 12 December 2014 10:38PM

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Comment author: paulfchristiano 15 December 2014 07:02:24AM *  2 points [-]

You only have trouble if there is a goal-directed level beneath the lowest approval-directed level. The idea is to be approval-directed at the lowest levels where it makes sense (and below that you are using heuristics, algorithms, etc., in the same way that a goal-directed agent eventually bottoms out with useful heuristics or algorithms).