I think what has happened is that most of the LW people working on decision theory in the past few years have been working with different variations on UDT, while Eliezer hasn’t participated much in the discussions due to being preoccupied with other projects. It seems understandable that he saw some ideas that somebody was playing with, and thought that everyone was assuming something similar.
I think what has happened is that most of the LW people working on decision theory in the past few years have been working with different variations on UDT, while Eliezer hasn’t participated much in the discussions due to being preoccupied with other projects. It seems understandable that he saw some ideas that somebody was playing with, and thought that everyone was assuming something similar.
Yes. And now, MIRI is planning a decision theory workshop (for September) so that some of this can be hashed out.