Sure, if it happened to be in a situation where the most valuable thing to do by my standards was make me happy. Agreed. You seem to be implying that I should prefer to avoid this result… do you in fact believe that? If so, can you clarify why?
A somewhat analogous real-world situation: one of Siri’s possible responses to “open the pod bay doors” as a command is “We’re never going to live that down, are we?” This delights me enormously, and costs nothing of consequence. Should I prefer that this result be eliminated?
Actually I misunderstood his point with calculator. He was speaking of NDT with issues resulting from equivalence, i thought he was speaking of issues resulting from substitution. I did not mean to imply that you should avoid this result, simply that if you want your calculator to work by the decision theory I thought he was referring to, it got to have some utilities associated with outputs. And this doesn’t really help make a calculating device.
Sure, if it happened to be in a situation where the most valuable thing to do by my standards was make me happy. Agreed.
You seem to be implying that I should prefer to avoid this result… do you in fact believe that?
If so, can you clarify why?
A somewhat analogous real-world situation: one of Siri’s possible responses to “open the pod bay doors” as a command is “We’re never going to live that down, are we?” This delights me enormously, and costs nothing of consequence. Should I prefer that this result be eliminated?
Actually I misunderstood his point with calculator. He was speaking of NDT with issues resulting from equivalence, i thought he was speaking of issues resulting from substitution. I did not mean to imply that you should avoid this result, simply that if you want your calculator to work by the decision theory I thought he was referring to, it got to have some utilities associated with outputs. And this doesn’t really help make a calculating device.
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.