I have previously described the “wrapping” in question in some detail here.
Well, that provides me with enough information to realize that you don’t actually have a way to make utility functions into a reduction or simplification of the intelligence problem, so I’ll stop asking you to produce one.
A utility-based model can be made which is not significantly longer that the shortest possible model of the agent’s actions
The argument that, “utility-based systems can be made that aren’t that much more complex than just doing whatever you could’ve done in the first place”, is like saying that your new file format is awesome because it only uses a few bytes more than an existing similar format, to represent the exact same information… and without any other implementation advantages!
Well, that provides me with enough information to realize that you don’t actually have a way to make utility functions into a reduction or simplification of the intelligence problem, so I’ll stop asking you to produce one.
The argument that, “utility-based systems can be made that aren’t that much more complex than just doing whatever you could’ve done in the first place”, is like saying that your new file format is awesome because it only uses a few bytes more than an existing similar format, to represent the exact same information… and without any other implementation advantages!
Thanks, but I’ll pass.