“Not quite… ” are you saying that the example is wrong, or that it is not general enough? I used a more specific example, as I found it easier to understand that way.
I am not sure I understand: In my mind “commitments to balance out the original agent’s attainable utility” essentially refers to the second agent being penalized by the the first agent’s penalty (although I agree that my statement is stronger). Regarding your text, my statement refers to “SA will just precommit to undermine or help A, depending on the circumstances, just sufficiently to keep the expected rewards the same. ”.
My confusion is about why the second agent is only mildy constrained by this commitment. For example, weakening the first agent would come with a big penalty (or more precisely, building another agent that is going to weaken it gives a large penalty to the original agent), unless it’s reversible, right?
The bit about multiple subagents does not assume that more than one of them is actually built. It rather presents a scenario where building intelligent subagents is automatically penalized. (Edit: under the assumption that building a lot of subagents is infeasible or takes a lot of time).
“Not quite… ” are you saying that the example is wrong, or that it is not general enough? I used a more specific example, as I found it easier to understand that way.
I am not sure I understand: In my mind “commitments to balance out the original agent’s attainable utility” essentially refers to the second agent being penalized by the the first agent’s penalty (although I agree that my statement is stronger). Regarding your text, my statement refers to “SA will just precommit to undermine or help A, depending on the circumstances, just sufficiently to keep the expected rewards the same. ”.
My confusion is about why the second agent is only mildy constrained by this commitment. For example, weakening the first agent would come with a big penalty (or more precisely, building another agent that is going to weaken it gives a large penalty to the original agent), unless it’s reversible, right?
The bit about multiple subagents does not assume that more than one of them is actually built. It rather presents a scenario where building intelligent subagents is automatically penalized. (Edit: under the assumption that building a lot of subagents is infeasible or takes a lot of time).
Another relevant post: it seems that the subagent need not be constrained at all, except on the first action. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jrrZids4LPiLuLzpu/subagents-and-attainable-utility-in-general