jamesf comments on Simulate and Defer To More Rational Selves - LessWrong

125 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 17 September 2014 06:11PM

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Comment author: jamesf 15 September 2014 12:25:05AM 0 points [-]

I think I've been doing something like this for a long time, but imagining the simulated decision-maker as a "Ghost of Agency and Making Things Better" rather than an idealized version of myself. People seemed to find that a lot more confusing than this, though, so I'm going to start describing it this way instead.