The rationale for TDT-like decision theories is even more general, I think. There’s no guarantee that our world contains only one copy of something. We want a decision theory that would let the AI cooperate with its copies or logical correlates, rather than wage pointless wars.
We want a decision theory that would let the AI cooperate with its copies or logical correlates, rather than wage pointless wars.
Constructing rigorous mathematical foundation of decision theory to explain what a decision problem or a decision or a goal are, is potentially more useful than resolving any given informally specified class of decision problems.
The rationale for TDT-like decision theories is even more general, I think. There’s no guarantee that our world contains only one copy of something. We want a decision theory that would let the AI cooperate with its copies or logical correlates, rather than wage pointless wars.
Constructing rigorous mathematical foundation of decision theory to explain what a decision problem or a decision or a goal are, is potentially more useful than resolving any given informally specified class of decision problems.