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Stuart_Armstrong comments on Presidents, asteroids, natural categories, and reduced impact - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 06 July 2015 05:44PM

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Comment author: SilentCal 09 July 2015 05:17:33PM 1 point [-]

But if Z is 'Created a subsubagent with source code S' for some static string S, the value of X has no bearing on the value of Z, nor is Z decomposable, regardless of what S may be.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 July 2015 04:55:10PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. Let me think more.