What is the importance of finding a perfect decision theory?
Three motivations are common around here:
Building a Friendly AI that is based on decision theory.
Understanding what ideal rationality looks like, so we have a better idea of what to aim for as far as improving our own rationality.
Curiosity. If we knew what the perfect decision theory was, many philosophical questions may be answered or would be closer to being answered.
For some relevant posts, see 1 and 2.
Thank you for the clear and informative reply.
Three motivations are common around here:
Building a Friendly AI that is based on decision theory.
Understanding what ideal rationality looks like, so we have a better idea of what to aim for as far as improving our own rationality.
Curiosity. If we knew what the perfect decision theory was, many philosophical questions may be answered or would be closer to being answered.
For some relevant posts, see 1 and 2.
Thank you for the clear and informative reply.