Agent foundations is studying a strange alternate world where agents know the source code to themselves and the universe, where perfect predictors exist and so on
I just want to flag that this is very much not a defining characteristic of agent foundations! Some work in agent foundations will make assumptions like this, some won’t—I consider it a major goal of agent foundations to come up with theories that do not rely on assumptions like this.
I just want to flag that this is very much not a defining characteristic of agent foundations! Some work in agent foundations will make assumptions like this, some won’t—I consider it a major goal of agent foundations to come up with theories that do not rely on assumptions like this.
(Or maybe you just meant those as examples?)