orthonormal comments on New paper from MIRI: "Toward idealized decision theory" - LessWrong

27 Post author: So8res 16 December 2014 10:27PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 26 December 2014 09:33:46PM 2 points [-]

I like the way that the paper is structured! It contains the clearest motivation for studying logical counterfactuals that I've yet seen.

A possible typo:

"Consider what happens if A() = const Refuse: Then A() != s, and so A() = s implies anything"

I think you left out a "for all s != Refuse" or an equivalent. Actually, I'd just go with "if Provable(A() != s)".

Comment author: So8res 27 December 2014 04:51:18AM 0 points [-]

Nice catch. Fixed. Thanks for the proof reading, and also for the kind words!