Lumifer comments on Confused as to usefulness of 'consciousness' as a concept - LessWrong

35 Post author: KnaveOfAllTrades 13 July 2014 11:01AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 July 2014 10:06:15PM 4 points [-]

Well as I said: we don't have maths for this so-called reduction, so its trustworthiness is questionable. We know about game theory, but I don't know of a game-theoretic formalism allowing for agents to win something other than generic "dollars" or "points", such that we can encode in the formalism that agents share some values but not others, and have tradeoffs among their different values.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 July 2014 11:51:58PM 3 points [-]

the formalism that agents share some values but not others, and have tradeoffs among their different values.

Isn't that what usually is known as "trade"?