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joecarlsmith.com
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| | | | | I think that you can "control" events you have no causal interaction with, including events in the past, and that this is a wild and disorienting fact, with uncertain but possibly significant implications. This essay attempts to impart such disorientation. | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | In this post, I clarify how far we are from a complete solution to decision theory, and the way in which high-level philosophy relates to the mathematical formalism. I've personally been confused about this in the past, and I think it could be useful to people who casually follows the field. I also link to some less well-publicized approaches. The first disagreement you might encounter when reading about alignment-related decision theory is the disagreement between Causal Decision Theory (CDT), Evidential Decision Theory (EDT), and different logical decision theories emerging from MIRI and lesswrong, such as Functional Decision Theory (FDT) and Updateless Decision Theory (UDT). This is characterized by disagreements on how to act in problems such as Newcomb'... | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | [Epistemic status: I may have gotten some things wrong so please point out any errors. I also papered over a lot of technical details in favor of presenting my intuitions. A lot of this is me thinking out loud. If you already know a lot about decision theory or want the gory details, I've listed a bunch of resources on decision theory at the bottom of this post.] Rationality is sometimes considered to be "maximizing expected utility". This seems pretty unambiguous but it turns out that what this means is pretty tricky to define, and different decision theories have different definitions of it. In this post, I will summarize causal decision theory, evidential decision theory, and updateless/functional/logical decision theory. | |
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smoothbrains.net
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| | | [AI summary] This article introduces Steven Lehar's theories on phenomenology, focusing on bubble worlds and force fields as models for understanding subjective experiences and consciousness, with insights from various contributors and personal reflections. | ||
