Cameron_Taylor

• Cameron_Taylor 27 Jul 2010 7:08 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: SilasBarta’s comment on: Me­taphilo­soph­i­cal Mysteries

  What should I have learned from your link to Updateless Decision Theory that causes me to suspect that EU maximizing with Bayesian updating on a universal prior is wrong?

  From what I can glean from the UDT descriptions it seems that UDT defines ‘updating’ to include things that I would prefer to describe as ‘naive updating’, ‘updating wrong’ or ‘updating the wrong thing’.

• Cameron_Taylor 27 Jul 2010 7:16 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: wedrifid’s comment on: Akra­sia Tac­tics Review

  I’m giving this one a rating of 8. Effective, but not quite bullet proof. At least it provides a significant roadblock before one form of procrastination.

• Cameron_Taylor 27 Jul 2010 8:39 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: cousin_it’s comment on: Me­taphilo­soph­i­cal Mysteries

  Some people also think the ability to argue and selectively not comprehend arguments arose due to runaway sexual selection for ability to manipulate and resist manipulation.

• Cameron_Taylor 27 Jul 2010 8:55 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: Unknowns’s comment on: Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2

  My prior for the probability of winning the lottery by fraud

  What’s your secret? ;)

• Cameron_Taylor 28 Jul 2010 8:05 UTC

  −2 points

  in reply to: Cameron_Taylor’s comment on: Me­taphilo­soph­i­cal Mysteries

  This additional point is controversial even here?

• Cameron_Taylor 31 Jul 2010 1:39 UTC

  −1 points

  in reply to: Blueberry’s comment on: AI co­op­er­a­tion in practice

  Upvoted entire ancestor tree, for similar reasons.