I still feel like there’s just too many pigeons and not enough holes.
Like, if you’re an agent in some universe with complexity K(U) and you’re located by a bridging rule with complexity K(B), you are not an agent with complexity K(U). Average case you have complexity (or really you think the world has some complexity) K(U)+K(B) minus some small constant. We can illustrate this fact by making U simple and B complicated—like locating a particular string within the digits of pi.
And if an adversary in a simple universe (complexity K(U’)) “hijacks” you by instantiating you at an easy-to-bridge location (cost K(B’)), in their universe, what you’ve learned is your complexity is actually K(U’)+K(B’).
But of course there are vastly fewer agents with the small “hijacked” complexity than there are with the large “natural” complexity. I’m really skeptical that you can bridge this gap with arguments like “the universe will be simpler than it naively seems because we can search for ones that are majorly impacted by agents.”
I still feel like there’s just too many pigeons and not enough holes.
Like, if you’re an agent in some universe with complexity K(U) and you’re located by a bridging rule with complexity K(B), you are not an agent with complexity K(U). Average case you have complexity (or really you think the world has some complexity) K(U)+K(B) minus some small constant. We can illustrate this fact by making U simple and B complicated—like locating a particular string within the digits of pi.
And if an adversary in a simple universe (complexity K(U’)) “hijacks” you by instantiating you at an easy-to-bridge location (cost K(B’)), in their universe, what you’ve learned is your complexity is actually K(U’)+K(B’).
But of course there are vastly fewer agents with the small “hijacked” complexity than there are with the large “natural” complexity. I’m really skeptical that you can bridge this gap with arguments like “the universe will be simpler than it naively seems because we can search for ones that are majorly impacted by agents.”