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ZacHirschman comments on Concept Safety: World-models as tools - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ZacHirschman 09 May 2015 02:22:03PM 1 point [-]

The cognitive theory is beyond me, but the math looks interesting. I need to exert more thought on this, but I would submit an open Question for the community: might there be a way to calculate error bounds on outputs conditioned on "world models" based on the models' predictive accuracy and/or complexity? If this were possible, it would be strong support for mathematical insight into the "meta model".

Comment author: Manfred 09 May 2015 08:00:01PM 0 points [-]

This sort of seems like the topic of my recent post - let me know if it sparks your imagination, and/or if there are any easy ways I could improve it :)

Comment author: ZacHirschman 10 May 2015 01:47:59PM 0 points [-]

Thank you - I have this, and some dense Hutter yet to read.