Economists have pointed out that technical functions (i.e. the functions which yield the “outputs” for any given resource inputs and production techniques) are also explored lazily, as it were. It’s quite likely that the existing literature on machine learning and search theory has extensively considered the implications of such exploration on the resulting behavior.
Beckstead’s dissertation isn’t online yet, and he asked me not to upload it.
Thanks for sharing the connections between human utility functions and programming functions.
Other works on that subject are Muehlhauser (2012) and Nielsen & Jensen (2004), both of which I cited in IEME, and also Srivastava & Schrater (2012), which was recently brought to my attention by Jacob Steinhardt.
Economists have pointed out that technical functions (i.e. the functions which yield the “outputs” for any given resource inputs and production techniques) are also explored lazily, as it were. It’s quite likely that the existing literature on machine learning and search theory has extensively considered the implications of such exploration on the resulting behavior.