What’s the connection to “Embedded Agency”, and what do you mean by using the term?
(This piece sounds like it’s about extracting utility functions and probability distributions, and it’s not clear how that’s related (in the framework this post outlines).)
[As a side note, I notice that the habit of “pepper things with hyperlinks whenever possible” seems to be less common on modern LW than it was on old LW, but I think it was actually a pretty great habit and I’d like to see more of it.]
Thanks for bringing up the hyperlink thing; I will use them more liberally in the future. When writing for a LW audience, I tend to lean toward fewer links to avoid sounding patronizing. But actually thinking about it for a second, that seems like a very questionable gain with a significant cost.
Yeah, this seems true. Might be subtle UI things. We could probably also push towards this by making searching for links easier, for example by having a Github style search that shows up when you start typing some character (like / or #)
Let me know if you’ve read the link Vaniver gave and the connection still isn’t clear. If that’s the case, then there’s an inferential gap I’ve failed to notice, and I’ll probably write a whole additional post to flesh out that connection.
What’s the connection to “Embedded Agency”, and what do you mean by using the term?
(This piece sounds like it’s about extracting utility functions and probability distributions, and it’s not clear how that’s related (in the framework this post outlines).)
See here.
[As a side note, I notice that the habit of “pepper things with hyperlinks whenever possible” seems to be less common on modern LW than it was on old LW, but I think it was actually a pretty great habit and I’d like to see more of it.]
Thanks for bringing up the hyperlink thing; I will use them more liberally in the future. When writing for a LW audience, I tend to lean toward fewer links to avoid sounding patronizing. But actually thinking about it for a second, that seems like a very questionable gain with a significant cost.
Yeah, this seems true. Might be subtle UI things. We could probably also push towards this by making searching for links easier, for example by having a Github style search that shows up when you start typing some character (like
/or#)Seconded.
Let me know if you’ve read the link Vaniver gave and the connection still isn’t clear. If that’s the case, then there’s an inferential gap I’ve failed to notice, and I’ll probably write a whole additional post to flesh out that connection.