how do I talk about how someone makes a decision and what a decision is from outside the subjective uncertainty of being the agent in the time prior to when the decision is made.
I am confused… Are you asking how would Omega describe someone’s decision-making process? That would be like watching an open-source program execute. For example, if you know that the optimization algorithm is steepest descent, and you know the landscape it is run on, you can see every step it makes, including picking one of several possible paths.
Essentially yes, but with the caveat that I want to find a model in which to frame that description that doesn’t require constant appeal to subjective experience to explain what a decision is while also not knowing what the program will do until it’s done it (no hypercomputation) and is not dependent on constantly modeling Omega’s uncertainty. Maybe that’s too much to ask, but it’s annoying to constantly have to frame things in terms of what was known at a particular time to have the notion of a decision or choice make sense, so ideally we find a framework for talking about these things that remains sensible while abstracting that detail away.
I am confused… Are you asking how would Omega describe someone’s decision-making process? That would be like watching an open-source program execute. For example, if you know that the optimization algorithm is steepest descent, and you know the landscape it is run on, you can see every step it makes, including picking one of several possible paths.
Essentially yes, but with the caveat that I want to find a model in which to frame that description that doesn’t require constant appeal to subjective experience to explain what a decision is while also not knowing what the program will do until it’s done it (no hypercomputation) and is not dependent on constantly modeling Omega’s uncertainty. Maybe that’s too much to ask, but it’s annoying to constantly have to frame things in terms of what was known at a particular time to have the notion of a decision or choice make sense, so ideally we find a framework for talking about these things that remains sensible while abstracting that detail away.