Your actions and decisions are not doubled. If you have multiple paths to arrive at the same behaviors, that doesn’t make them wrong or double-counted, it just makes it hard to tell which of them is causal (aka: your behavior is overdetermined).
Are you using “updatelessness” to refer to not having self in your utility function? If so, that’s a new one one me, and I’d prefer “altruism” as the term. I’m not sure that the decision-theory use of “updateless” (to avoid incorrect predictions where experience is correlated with the question at hand) makes sense here.
Yeah, I don’t think “double counted” is the right term here.
Consider, if just personally like the taste of kale, I’ll eat kale. If I also find out that kale is especially healthy, I have additional reason to eat kale, compared to alternatives that are not as healthy.
Surely there’s some correlation and causal relationship between what I find tasty and what is healthy. Nutrition (and avoiding poisoning) is the main reason taste evolved!
But that doesn’t mean that taste and health aren’t separate reasons for me to prefer to eat kale.
Your actions and decisions are not doubled. If you have multiple paths to arrive at the same behaviors, that doesn’t make them wrong or double-counted, it just makes it hard to tell which of them is causal (aka: your behavior is overdetermined).
Are you using “updatelessness” to refer to not having self in your utility function? If so, that’s a new one one me, and I’d prefer “altruism” as the term. I’m not sure that the decision-theory use of “updateless” (to avoid incorrect predictions where experience is correlated with the question at hand) makes sense here.
Yeah, I don’t think “double counted” is the right term here.
Consider, if just personally like the taste of kale, I’ll eat kale. If I also find out that kale is especially healthy, I have additional reason to eat kale, compared to alternatives that are not as healthy.
Surely there’s some correlation and causal relationship between what I find tasty and what is healthy. Nutrition (and avoiding poisoning) is the main reason taste evolved!
But that doesn’t mean that taste and health aren’t separate reasons for me to prefer to eat kale.