I think I disagree pretty broadly with the assumptions/framing of your comment, although not necessarily the specific claims.
1) I don’t think it’s realistic to imagine we have “indistinguishable imitation” with an idealized discriminator. It might be possible in the future, and it might be worth considering to make intellectual progress, but I’m not expecting it to happen on a deadline. So I’m talking about what I expect might be a practical problem if we actually try to build systems that imitate humans in the coming decades.
2) I wouldn’t say “decision theory”; I think that’s a bit of a red herring. What I’m talking about is the policy.
3) I’m not sure the link you are trying to make to the “universal prior is malign” ideas. But I’ll draw my own connection. I do think the core of the argument I’m making results from an intuitive idea of what a simplicity prior looks like, and its propensity to favor something more like a planning process over something more like a lookup table.
I think I disagree pretty broadly with the assumptions/framing of your comment, although not necessarily the specific claims.
1) I don’t think it’s realistic to imagine we have “indistinguishable imitation” with an idealized discriminator. It might be possible in the future, and it might be worth considering to make intellectual progress, but I’m not expecting it to happen on a deadline. So I’m talking about what I expect might be a practical problem if we actually try to build systems that imitate humans in the coming decades.
2) I wouldn’t say “decision theory”; I think that’s a bit of a red herring. What I’m talking about is the policy.
3) I’m not sure the link you are trying to make to the “universal prior is malign” ideas. But I’ll draw my own connection. I do think the core of the argument I’m making results from an intuitive idea of what a simplicity prior looks like, and its propensity to favor something more like a planning process over something more like a lookup table.