TurnTrout comments on Open Problems with Myopia

[TurnTrout]

In some sense, agents that press the button will engage in deception; both agents trade reward now for more reward later.

I don’t understand—isn’t the opposite true here?

[Mark Xu]

Yep—I switched the setup at some point and forgot to switch this sentence. Thanks.

[Evan R. Murphy]

I think there may be another leftover from the old setup:

We are interested in creating agents that robustly do not press the button.

Shouldn’t this be interested in creating agents that robustly do press the button? I.e. then they’re reliably myopic. Or am I misunderstanding something?

[Mark Xu]

Yep, thanks. Fixed.