The defining difference was whether they have contextually activating behaviors to satisfy a set of drives, on the basis that this makes it trivial to out-think their interests. But this ability to out-think them also seems intrinsically linked to them being adversarially non-robust, because you can enumerate their weaknesses. You’re right that one could imagine an intermediate case where they are sufficiently far-sighted that you might accidentally trigger conflict with them but not sufficiently far-sighted for them to win the conflicts, but that doesn’t mean one could make something adversarially robust under the constraint of it being contextually activated and predictable.
I interpreted “unbounded” as “aiming to maximize expected value of whatever”, not “unbounded in the sense of bounded rationality”.
The defining difference was whether they have contextually activating behaviors to satisfy a set of drives, on the basis that this makes it trivial to out-think their interests. But this ability to out-think them also seems intrinsically linked to them being adversarially non-robust, because you can enumerate their weaknesses. You’re right that one could imagine an intermediate case where they are sufficiently far-sighted that you might accidentally trigger conflict with them but not sufficiently far-sighted for them to win the conflicts, but that doesn’t mean one could make something adversarially robust under the constraint of it being contextually activated and predictable.
Alright, fair, I misread the definition of “homeostatic agents”.