I never wrote a post on it specifically, but it’s sort of implicit in my UDT post (see also this comment). Eliezer also has a free will sequence) which is somewhat similar/related but I’m not sure if he would agree with my formulation.
“What is it that you’re deciding when you make a decision?”
What is “you”? And what is “deciding”? Personally I haven’t been able to come to any redefinition of free will that makes more sense than this one.
I haven’t read the free will sequence. And I haven’t read up on decision theory because I wasn’t sure if my math education is good enough yet. But I doubt that if I was going to read it I would learn that you can salvage the notion of “deciding” from causality and logical facts. The best you can do is look at an agent and treat it is as a transformation. But then you’d still be left with the problem of identity.
I never wrote a post on it specifically, but it’s sort of implicit in my UDT post (see also this comment). Eliezer also has a free will sequence) which is somewhat similar/related but I’m not sure if he would agree with my formulation.
What is “you”? And what is “deciding”? Personally I haven’t been able to come to any redefinition of free will that makes more sense than this one.
I haven’t read the free will sequence. And I haven’t read up on decision theory because I wasn’t sure if my math education is good enough yet. But I doubt that if I was going to read it I would learn that you can salvage the notion of “deciding” from causality and logical facts. The best you can do is look at an agent and treat it is as a transformation. But then you’d still be left with the problem of identity.