I think that this idea behind AUP has fairly obvious applications to human rationality and cooperation, although they aren’t spelled out in this post. This seems like a good candidate for follow-up work.
I’m curious whether these are applications I’ve started to gesture at in Reframing Impact, or whether what you have in mind as obvious isn’t a subset of what I have in mind. I’d be interested in seeing your shortlist.
For more detail, see my exchange in the descendents of this comment—I still mostly agree with my claims about the technical aspects of AUP as presented in this post. Fleshing out these details is also, in my opinion, a good candidate for follow-up work.
Without rereading all of the threads, I’d like to note that I now agree with Daniel about the subhistories issue. I also agree that the formalization in this post is overly confusing and complicated.
I’m curious whether these are applications I’ve started to gesture at in Reframing Impact
I confess that it’s been a bit since I’ve read that sequence, and it’s not obvious to me how to go from the beginnings of gestures to their referents. Basically what I mean is ‘when trying to be cooperative in a group, preserve generalised ability to achieve goals’, nothing more specific than that.
I’m curious whether these are applications I’ve started to gesture at in Reframing Impact, or whether what you have in mind as obvious isn’t a subset of what I have in mind. I’d be interested in seeing your shortlist.
Without rereading all of the threads, I’d like to note that I now agree with Daniel about the subhistories issue. I also agree that the formalization in this post is overly confusing and complicated.
I confess that it’s been a bit since I’ve read that sequence, and it’s not obvious to me how to go from the beginnings of gestures to their referents. Basically what I mean is ‘when trying to be cooperative in a group, preserve generalised ability to achieve goals’, nothing more specific than that.