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sideways-view.com
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| | | | | There are many tricky questions in decision theory. In this post, I'll argue that the choice between CDT and EDT isn't one of them. Causal decision theory (CDT) evaluates expected utilities under causal interventions, while evidential decision theory (EDT) evaluates conditional expected utilities. Humans tend to have strong intuitions in favor of CDT, but I'll... | |
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www.alignmentforum.org
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| | | | | Thanks to Noa Nabeshima for helpful discussion and comments. ... | |
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unstableontology.com
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| | | | | "Ratification" is defined as "the act or process of ratifying something (such as a treaty or amendment) : formal confirmation or sanction". Self-ratification, then, is assigning validity to one's self. (My use of the term "self-ratification" follows philosophical usage in analysis of causal decision theory) At first this seems like a trivial condition. It is,... | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | Update (Nov. 22): Theoretical computer scientist and longtime friend-of-the-blog Boaz Barak writes to tell me that, coincidentally, he and Ben Edelman just released a big essay advocating a version of "Reform AI Alignment" on Boaz's Windows on Theory blog, as well as on LessWrong. (I warned Boaz that, having taken the momentous step of posting... | ||
