Yeah, for me the early development of shard theory work was confusing for similar reasons. Quintin framed values as contextual decision influences and thought these were fundamental, while I’d absorbed from Eliezer that values were like a utility function. They just think in very different frames. This is why science is so confusing until one frame proves useful and is established as a Kuhnian paradigm.
Yeah, for me the early development of shard theory work was confusing for similar reasons. Quintin framed values as contextual decision influences and thought these were fundamental, while I’d absorbed from Eliezer that values were like a utility function. They just think in very different frames. This is why science is so confusing until one frame proves useful and is established as a Kuhnian paradigm.