This is just another attempt to use English to wrestle with problems that become trivial when you restate them in a programming language. And I think we have more than enough of those already.
Disagree. From my perspective at least the central idea- of treating different decision theories as voting by potential future selves seems to be a novel and interesting idea. Moreover, while they don’t state things in terms of programming languages, they are sufficiently precise with a lot of their discussion that I don’t think they are running into many problems arising from language. Some of their remarks may however be better stated in a more algorithmic approach.
Disagree. From my perspective at least the central idea- of treating different decision theories as voting by potential future selves seems to be a novel and interesting idea. Moreover, while they don’t state things in terms of programming languages, they are sufficiently precise with a lot of their discussion that I don’t think they are running into many problems arising from language. Some of their remarks may however be better stated in a more algorithmic approach.