Yes, making it rigorous will be difficult. Yudkowsky himself has said he thinks that 95% of the work will be in figuring out which theorem to prove. The correct response to a difficult problem is not to run away.
I’m not suggesting running away. I’m suggesting that the rigorous statement of the theorem will not include the notions of self-modification (my definition) or self-modification (your definition), since we don’t have rigorous definitions of those terms that apply outside of a counterfactual mathematical formalism.
I’m not suggesting running away. I’m suggesting that the rigorous statement of the theorem will not include the notions of self-modification (my definition) or self-modification (your definition), since we don’t have rigorous definitions of those terms that apply outside of a counterfactual mathematical formalism.