So, Hitler’s CEV seems to depend on the technical details, in which order he gets the new knowledge and the new skills. He could end up either CEV-nice or a CEV-monster.
This sort of reminds me of Scott Alexander’s Murder Ghandi example. Many moral updates which are stable when extrapolated to the limit, are path dependent when done incrementally.
But it also has a decision-theory dependent flavor to it, it seems like the right decision theory wouldn’t struggle with this.
But that itself seems recursive, since it runs into the same path dependence problem, as you could easily incrementally change your decision theory based on the results of your current decision theory into a bad basin.
This sort of reminds me of Scott Alexander’s Murder Ghandi example. Many moral updates which are stable when extrapolated to the limit, are path dependent when done incrementally.
But it also has a decision-theory dependent flavor to it, it seems like the right decision theory wouldn’t struggle with this.
But that itself seems recursive, since it runs into the same path dependence problem, as you could easily incrementally change your decision theory based on the results of your current decision theory into a bad basin.