An idea on how to make the execution part trivial – a rational planner should treat his own execution module as a part of the external environment, not as a part of ‘himself’. This approach will produce plans that take into account the inefficiencies of one’s execution module and plan around them.
I hope you realize this is potentially recursive, if this ‘execution module’ happens to be instrumental to rationality. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing.
What if first, you just calculate the most beneficial actions you can take (like Scott did), and after that asses each of those using something like piers steel’s procrastination equation? then you know which one you’re most likely to achieve, and can can choose more wisely.
also, doing the easiest first can sometimes be a good strategy to achieve all of them, steel calls it a success spiral, where you succeed time after time and it increases your motivation.
Well, ideally one considers the whole of themselves when doing the calculations, but it does make the calculations tricky.
And that still doesn’t answer exactly how to take it into account. ie, “okay, I need to take into account the properties of my execution module, find ways to actually get it to do stuff. How?”
An idea on how to make the execution part trivial – a rational planner should treat his own execution module as a part of the external environment, not as a part of ‘himself’. This approach will produce plans that take into account the inefficiencies of one’s execution module and plan around them.
I hope you realize this is potentially recursive, if this ‘execution module’ happens to be instrumental to rationality. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing.
No, I don’t (yet) -- could you please elaborate on this?
Funny how this got rerun on the same day as EY posted about progress on Löb’s problem.
What if first, you just calculate the most beneficial actions you can take (like Scott did), and after that asses each of those using something like piers steel’s procrastination equation? then you know which one you’re most likely to achieve, and can can choose more wisely.
also, doing the easiest first can sometimes be a good strategy to achieve all of them, steel calls it a success spiral, where you succeed time after time and it increases your motivation.
Well, ideally one considers the whole of themselves when doing the calculations, but it does make the calculations tricky.
And that still doesn’t answer exactly how to take it into account. ie, “okay, I need to take into account the properties of my execution module, find ways to actually get it to do stuff. How?”
However, treating the execution module as external and fixed may demotivate attempts to improve it.
(Related: Chaotic Inversion)