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19 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 September 2015 02:59PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 September 2015 02:37:51PM 2 points [-]

I don't think you can meaningful consider B and C separate agents in this case. B is merely a low-level subroutine while C is the high-level control program.

Which is one of the reasons that concepts like "autonomy" are so vague.