Is it correct that in deterministic environments with known dynamics, intent verification will cause the agent to wait until the last possible timestep in the epoch at which it can execute its plan and achieve maximal u_A?
Don’t think so in general? If it knew with certainty that it could accomplish the plan later, there is no penalty for waiting, and u_A is agnostic to waiting, we might see it in that case.
But the first action doesn’t strictly improve your ability to get u_A (because you could just wait and execute the plan later), and so intent verification would give it a 1.01 penalty?
It’s also fine in worlds where these properties really are true. If the agent thinks this is true (but it isn’t), it’ll start acting when it realizes. Seems like a nonissue.
I’m not claiming it’s an issue, I’m trying to understand what AUP does. Your response to comments is frequently of the form “AUP wouldn’t do that” so afaict none of the commenters (including me) groks your conception of AUP, so I’m trying to extract simple implications and see if they’re actually true in an attempt to grok it.
That doesn’t conflict with what I said.
I can’t tell if you agree or disagree with my original claim. “Don’t think so in general?” implies not, but this implies you do?
If you disagree with my original claim, what’s an example with deterministic known dynamics, where there is an optimal plan to achieve maximal u_A that can be executed at any time, where AUP with intent verification will execute that plan before the last possible moment in the epoch?
I agree with what you said for those environments, yeah. I was trying to express that I don’t expect this situation to be common, which is beside the point in light of your motivation for asking!
(I welcome these questions and hope my short replies don’t come off as impatient. I’m still dictating everything.)
Is it correct that in deterministic environments with known dynamics, intent verification will cause the agent to wait until the last possible timestep in the epoch at which it can execute its plan and achieve maximal u_A?
Don’t think so in general? If it knew with certainty that it could accomplish the plan later, there is no penalty for waiting, and u_A is agnostic to waiting, we might see it in that case.
But the first action doesn’t strictly improve your ability to get u_A (because you could just wait and execute the plan later), and so intent verification would give it a 1.01 penalty?
That doesn’t conflict with what I said.
It’s also fine in worlds where these properties really are true. If the agent thinks this is true (but it isn’t), it’ll start acting when it realizes. Seems like a nonissue.
I’m not claiming it’s an issue, I’m trying to understand what AUP does. Your response to comments is frequently of the form “AUP wouldn’t do that” so afaict none of the commenters (including me) groks your conception of AUP, so I’m trying to extract simple implications and see if they’re actually true in an attempt to grok it.
I can’t tell if you agree or disagree with my original claim. “Don’t think so in general?” implies not, but this implies you do?
If you disagree with my original claim, what’s an example with deterministic known dynamics, where there is an optimal plan to achieve maximal u_A that can be executed at any time, where AUP with intent verification will execute that plan before the last possible moment in the epoch?
I agree with what you said for those environments, yeah. I was trying to express that I don’t expect this situation to be common, which is beside the point in light of your motivation for asking!
(I welcome these questions and hope my short replies don’t come off as impatient. I’m still dictating everything.)
Cool, thanks!