That seems to be the thing that Eliezer most often mentions when he is considering what he needs to learn more of in order to further his own friendliness research!
Friendliness philosophy and FAI research are two different domains, though I was being somewhat facetious when disparaging math. It does seem as if math will end up being important for tackling increasingly meta decision theory problems, which might be most of Friendliness philosophy.
Friendliness philosophy and FAI research are two different domains
Which are, nevertheless, more closely related than friendliness and chakras. It is also fundamentally necessary for many of the most useful fields that you mention. There is no way math deserves to be left out.
It doesn’t include useless things, like math. For an idea of all the things I left out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_of_science
That seems to be the thing that Eliezer most often mentions when he is considering what he needs to learn more of in order to further his own friendliness research!
Friendliness philosophy and FAI research are two different domains, though I was being somewhat facetious when disparaging math. It does seem as if math will end up being important for tackling increasingly meta decision theory problems, which might be most of Friendliness philosophy.
Which are, nevertheless, more closely related than friendliness and chakras. It is also fundamentally necessary for many of the most useful fields that you mention. There is no way math deserves to be left out.
I listed all the math I know of that seems relevant to Friendliness philosophy and isn’t particularly obscure (like metacompilation). What did I miss?
It seems like algorithmic probability theory and complex systems are the most conceptually rich fields I listed.
I would remove from the list before adding to it. I also wouldn’t make the claim: