I’ve spent a lot of time and written a handful of posts (including one on the interaction between Solomonoff and SIA) building my ontology. Parts may be mistaken but I don’t believe it’s “confused”. Tabooing core concepts will just make it more tedious to explain, probably with no real benefit.
In particular, the only actual observations anyone has are of the form “I have observed X”, and that needs to be the input into Solomonoff. You can’t input a bird’s eye view because you don’t have one.
Anyway, it seems weird that being altruistic affects the agent’s decision as to a purely local bet. You end up with the same answer as me on that question, acting “as if” the probability was 90%, but in a convoluted manner.
Maybe you should taboo probability. What does it mean to say that the probability is 50%, if not that you’ll accept purely local bets with better odds and not worse odds? The only purpose of probability in my ontology is for predictions for betting purposes (or decision making purposes that map onto that). Maybe it is your notion of probability that is confused.
Thanks for the suggestions. Clearly there’s still a lot of potentially fruitful disagreement here, some of it possibly mineable for insights; but I’m going to put this stuff on the shelf for now. Anyway, thanks.
I’ve spent a lot of time and written a handful of posts (including one on the interaction between Solomonoff and SIA) building my ontology. Parts may be mistaken but I don’t believe it’s “confused”. Tabooing core concepts will just make it more tedious to explain, probably with no real benefit.
In particular, the only actual observations anyone has are of the form “I have observed X”, and that needs to be the input into Solomonoff. You can’t input a bird’s eye view because you don’t have one.
Anyway, it seems weird that being altruistic affects the agent’s decision as to a purely local bet. You end up with the same answer as me on that question, acting “as if” the probability was 90%, but in a convoluted manner.
Maybe you should taboo probability. What does it mean to say that the probability is 50%, if not that you’ll accept purely local bets with better odds and not worse odds? The only purpose of probability in my ontology is for predictions for betting purposes (or decision making purposes that map onto that). Maybe it is your notion of probability that is confused.
Thanks for the suggestions. Clearly there’s still a lot of potentially fruitful disagreement here, some of it possibly mineable for insights; but I’m going to put this stuff on the shelf for now. Anyway, thanks.