Open Thread September, Part 3

LucasSloan

The September Open Thread, Part 2 has got nearly 800 posts, so let's have a little breathing room.

This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.

The September Open Thread, Part 2 has got nearly 800 posts, so let's have a little breathing room.

This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.

I expect people will be interested to hear that Eliezer's TDT document has now been released for general consumption.

I scanned it. My initial reactions:

Surprise that the document existed;
TL;DR;
Surprise at the quantity of work that had gone into it.

Alas, I totally failed to see the claimed "strange singularity at the heart of decision theory".

My favourite bit was probably the speculations about agent boundaries - starting on p.108. Alas, from my POV, no mention of the wirehead problem.

Update 2011-06-26 regarding the new version. The bit that reads:

This manuscript was cut off here, but interested readers are suggested to look at these sources for more d

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4Clippy16y

I notice that the ideal causal diagram used in Part 2 (and based on pearls) is isomorphic to an example I use to teach CLIP, once you apply the substitution: sprinkler on -> a paperclip truck has over turned rain -> a clippy has haphazardly used up a lot of metal wire sidewalk wet -> paperclips are scattered across the ground sidewalk slippery -> many paperclips need to be moved to the safe zone

3[anonymous]16y

Thanks, Larks-- how did you find out this was available? Is there a blog post or something somewhere? I didn't see it on SIAI's blog.