What stands out to me in the b-money case is that you kept tabs on “what the thing is for”/”the actual function of the thing”/”what role it is serving in the economy”, which helped you figure out how to make a significant improvement.
Very speculatively, maybe something similar was going on in the UDT case? If the ideal platonic theory of decision-making “should” tell you and your alt-timeline-selves how to act in a way that coheres (~adds up to something coherent?) across the multiverse or whatever, then it’s possible that having anthropics as the initial motivation helped.
Thanks!
The entire thing seems to have a very https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bhLxWTkRc8GXunFcB/what-are-you-tracking-in-your-head vibes, though that’s admittedly not very specific.
What stands out to me in the b-money case is that you kept tabs on “what the thing is for”/”the actual function of the thing”/”what role it is serving in the economy”, which helped you figure out how to make a significant improvement.
Very speculatively, maybe something similar was going on in the UDT case? If the ideal platonic theory of decision-making “should” tell you and your alt-timeline-selves how to act in a way that coheres (~adds up to something coherent?) across the multiverse or whatever, then it’s possible that having anthropics as the initial motivation helped.