Can you formalize this requirement? If I copy agent’s code … and insert this thing in the world program, how can you possibly make sure that there is no dependence?
You don’t get to do that, because when you’re writing World, the Strategy hasn’t been determined yet. Think of it as a challenge-response protocol; World is a challenge, and Strategy is a response. You can still do agent-copying, but you have to enlarge the scope of World to include the rules by which that copying was done, or else you get unrelated agents instead of copies.
To copy agent’s code, you don’t need to know strategy. World naturally changes if you change it, and the strategy might change as well if you run the agent on a changed world, but agent’s code is still the same, and you know this code. The new world will only depend on the new strategy, not the old one, but now we have a world that depends on its agent’s strategy, and you won’t be able to find how it does, if you don’t already know.
In any case, all this copying is irrelevant, because the point is that there can exist very convoluted worlds that depend on agent’s action, but it’s not feasible to know that they do or how they do. And we don’t get to choose the real world.
You don’t get to do that, because when you’re writing World, the Strategy hasn’t been determined yet. Think of it as a challenge-response protocol; World is a challenge, and Strategy is a response. You can still do agent-copying, but you have to enlarge the scope of World to include the rules by which that copying was done, or else you get unrelated agents instead of copies.
To copy agent’s code, you don’t need to know strategy. World naturally changes if you change it, and the strategy might change as well if you run the agent on a changed world, but agent’s code is still the same, and you know this code. The new world will only depend on the new strategy, not the old one, but now we have a world that depends on its agent’s strategy, and you won’t be able to find how it does, if you don’t already know.
In any case, all this copying is irrelevant, because the point is that there can exist very convoluted worlds that depend on agent’s action, but it’s not feasible to know that they do or how they do. And we don’t get to choose the real world.