Self-reflection allows self-correction.
If you can fit yourself inside your world model, you can also model the hypothesis that you are wrong in some specific systematic way.
A partial model is a self-correction, because it says “believe as you will, except in such a case.”
This is the true significance of my results with @Daniel C:https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Go2mQBP4AXRw3iNMk/sleeping-experts-in-the-reflective-solomonoff-prior
That is, reflective oracles allow Solomonoff induction to think about ways of becoming less wrong.
Self-reflection allows self-correction.
If you can fit yourself inside your world model, you can also model the hypothesis that you are wrong in some specific systematic way.
A partial model is a self-correction, because it says “believe as you will, except in such a case.”
This is the true significance of my results with @Daniel C:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Go2mQBP4AXRw3iNMk/sleeping-experts-in-the-reflective-solomonoff-prior
That is, reflective oracles allow Solomonoff induction to think about ways of becoming less wrong.