A simulated universe gives precise meaning to “actions” and “utility functions”, as I explained sometime ago. It seems more elegant to give the agent a quined description of itself within the simulated universe, and a utility function over states of that same universe, instead of allowing only actions like “output a provably better version of myself and then call it”.
A simulated universe gives precise meaning to “actions” and “utility functions”, as I explained sometime ago. It seems more elegant to give the agent a quined description of itself within the simulated universe, and a utility function over states of that same universe, instead of allowing only actions like “output a provably better version of myself and then call it”.