I am confused by the part, where the Rick-shard can anticipate wich plan the other shards will bit for. If I understood shard-theory correctly, shards do not have their own world model, they can just bid up or down actions, according to the consequences they might have according to the worldmodel that is available to all shards. Please correct me if I am wrong about this point.
So I don’t see how the Rick-Shard could really „trick“ the atheism-shard via rationalisation.
If the Rick-shard sees that „church-going for respect-reasons“ will lead to conversion, then the atheism-shard has to see that too, because they query the same world-model. So the atheism-shard should bid against that plan just as heavily as against „going to church for conversion reasons“.
I think there is something else going on here. I think the Rick-shard does not trick the Atheism-Shard, but the Concious-Part that is not described by shard theory.
I think your comment highlights an important uncertainty of mine. Here’s my best guess:
I think planning involves world-model invocations (ie the predictive machinery which predicts relevant observables for plan stubs, like “get in my car”). It seems to me that there is subconscious planning, to some degree. If true, you wouldn’t notice the world-model being invoked because it’s sub-conscious. Insofar as “you” are in part composed of some set of shards or some algorithm which aggregates shard outputs, it’s therefore true that the world-model invocations aren’t globally visible. Therefore, it’s possible for certain kinds of WM invocations to not be visible to certain shards, even though those shards usually “hook into the WM” (eg check # of diamonds the plan leads to).
Separately, I’d guess that shards can be shaped to invoke the world model (e.g. “if this plan gets considered, will it be executed?”) without themselves being agents.
I am confused by the part, where the Rick-shard can anticipate wich plan the other shards will bit for. If I understood shard-theory correctly, shards do not have their own world model, they can just bid up or down actions, according to the consequences they might have according to the worldmodel that is available to all shards. Please correct me if I am wrong about this point.
So I don’t see how the Rick-Shard could really „trick“ the atheism-shard via rationalisation.
If the Rick-shard sees that „church-going for respect-reasons“ will lead to conversion, then the atheism-shard has to see that too, because they query the same world-model. So the atheism-shard should bid against that plan just as heavily as against „going to church for conversion reasons“.
I think there is something else going on here. I think the Rick-shard does not trick the Atheism-Shard, but the Concious-Part that is not described by shard theory.
I think your comment highlights an important uncertainty of mine. Here’s my best guess:
I think planning involves world-model invocations (ie the predictive machinery which predicts relevant observables for plan stubs, like “get in my car”). It seems to me that there is subconscious planning, to some degree. If true, you wouldn’t notice the world-model being invoked because it’s sub-conscious. Insofar as “you” are in part composed of some set of shards or some algorithm which aggregates shard outputs, it’s therefore true that the world-model invocations aren’t globally visible. Therefore, it’s possible for certain kinds of WM invocations to not be visible to certain shards, even though those shards usually “hook into the WM” (eg check # of diamonds the plan leads to).
Separately, I’d guess that shards can be shaped to invoke the world model (e.g. “if this plan gets considered, will it be executed?”) without themselves being agents.