Who said anything about sentience? NDT, as described, is a perfectly comprehensible program that (in certain games that you or I would regard as fair tests) generates spurious counterfactuals and thus makes terrible decisions, thanks to a particular kind of circularity.
In this sequence, I’m not talking about FAI or anything beyond my current understanding, and I’m not intentionally drawing metaphors. I’m simply outlining programs which (if I could write a good automated theorem-prover) I could write myself, and comparing how they do in a straightforward tournament setting, with the twist of allowing read-access to source codes. We should be able to agree on that base level.
Who said anything about sentience? NDT, as described, is a perfectly comprehensible program that (in certain games that you or I would regard as fair tests) generates spurious counterfactuals and thus makes terrible decisions, thanks to a particular kind of circularity.
In this sequence, I’m not talking about FAI or anything beyond my current understanding, and I’m not intentionally drawing metaphors. I’m simply outlining programs which (if I could write a good automated theorem-prover) I could write myself, and comparing how they do in a straightforward tournament setting, with the twist of allowing read-access to source codes. We should be able to agree on that base level.
Yea, NDT is no good, agreed about that. That doesn’t so much results from substitution as from full blown two way equivalence.