Do we need to do anything special to get invited to preorderers-only events? Preordered hardcover on May 14th, was not aware of the Q&A (Although perhaps I needed to pre-order sooner :) Or just do a better job of paying attention to my email inbox :) ).
I think this is also a burden of proof issue. Somebody who argues I ought to sacrifice my/my children's future for the benefit of some extremely abstract "greater good" has IMHO an overwhelming burden of proof that they are not masking a mistake in their reasoning. And frankly I do not think the current utilitarian frameworks are precise enough / universally accepted enough to be capable of truly meeting that burden of proof in any real sense.
Are you willing to provide a link to this GitHub repo?
There's probably more. There should be more -- please link in comments, if you know some!
Wouldn't "outing" potential honeypots be extremely counterproductive? So yeah, if you know some - please keep it to yourself!
Oftentimes downvoting without taking time to commet and explain reasons is reasonable, and I tends to strongly disagree with people who think I owe an incompetent write an explanation when downvoting. However, just this one time I would ask - can some of the people downvoting this explain why?
It is true that our standard way of mathematically modeling things implies that any coherent set of preferences must behave like a value function. But any mathematical model of the world is new essarily incomplete. A computationally limited agent that cannot fully foresee all consequences of its choices cannon have a coherent set of preferences to begin with. Should we be trying to figure out how to model computational limitations in a way that acknowledges that some form of preserving future choice might be an optimal strategy? Including preserving some future choice on how to extend the computationally limited objective function onto uncertain future situations?
This looks to be primarily about imports - that is, primarily taking into account Trump's new tariffs. I am guessing that Wall Street does not quite believe that Trump actually means it...
It would seem that my predictions of how Trump would approach this were pretty spot on... @MattJ I am curious what's your current take on it?
Why would the value to me personally of existence of happy people be linear in the number of them? Does creating happy person #10000001 [almost] identical to the previous 10000000 as joyous as when the 1st of them was created? I think value is necessary limited. There are always diminishing returns from more of the same...
> if you have a program computing a predicate P(x, y) that is only true when y = f(x), and then the program just tries all possible y - is that more like a function, or more like a lookup?
In order to test whether y=f(x), the program must have calculated f(x) and stored it somewhere. How did it calculate f(x)? Did it use a table or calculate it directly?
What I meant is that the program knows how to check the answer, but not how to compute/find one, other than by trying every answer and then checking it. (Think: you have a math equation, no idea how to solve for x, so you are just trying all possible x in a row).
Please define your acronyms. It took me a few moments of staring at your post to stop thinking about Society of Automotive Engineers making errors and realize what you actually meant :)