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Transfuturist comments on Satisficers' undefined behaviour - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Transfuturist 08 March 2015 01:43:49AM *  0 points [-]

My intuition is telling me that resource costs are relevant to an agent whether it has a term in the objective function or not. Omohundro's instrumental goal of efficiency...?

Comment author: Vaniver 08 March 2015 02:16:20AM 0 points [-]

My intuition is telling me that resource costs are relevant to an agent whether it has a term in the objective function or not. Omohundro's instrumental goal of efficiency...?

Ah; I'm not requiring a maximizer to be a general intelligence, and my intuitions are honed on things like CPLEX.