If we had a formal and efficient answer to this we would have FAI by now* or determined it impossible!
*Answering the question “Given a question, how should we go about answering it?” seems AI complete if not super human AI complete. People answer questions without doing it the right bayesian bless-ed way all the time with a bit of luck and brute force.
Answering the question “Given a question, how should we go about answering it?” seems AI complete if not super human AI complete.
Well, yes, that’s kind of the point. Rationality is about finding the answers to all useful questions; we can achieve this by finding good answers to fully general questions, like that one.
If we had a formal and efficient answer to this we would have FAI by now* or determined it impossible!
*Answering the question “Given a question, how should we go about answering it?” seems AI complete if not super human AI complete. People answer questions without doing it the right bayesian bless-ed way all the time with a bit of luck and brute force.
Well, yes, that’s kind of the point. Rationality is about finding the answers to all useful questions; we can achieve this by finding good answers to fully general questions, like that one.