Sylvester Kollin

Nov 30, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Sylvester Kollin |Nate Showell

FixDT is not a very new decision theory, but little has been written about it afaict, and it's interesting. So I'm going to write about it. TJ asked me to write this article to "offset" not engaging with Active Inference more. The name "fixDT" is due to Scott Garrabrant, and stands for "fixed-point decision theory". Ideas here are due to Scott Garrabrant, Sam Eisenstat, me, Daniel Hermann, TJ, Sahil, and Martin Soto, in roughly that priority order; but heavily filtered through my own lens.

Jul 10, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Nicolas Macé |Jesse Clifton |Daniel Kokotajlo |Sylvester Kollin

Thanks Dagon:Any mechanism to revoke or change a commitment is directly giving up value IN THE COMMON FORMULATION of the problemCan you say more about what you mean by “giving up value”? Our contention is that the ex-ante open-minded agent is not giving up (expected) value, in the relevant sense, when they "revoke their commitment" upon becoming aware of certain possible counterpart types.