Ben wrote: > Well, in fact, Novamente is **not** constrained from having Dutch > books made against it, because it is not a perfectly consistent > probabilistic reasoner. > > It seeks to maintain probabilistic consistency, but balances this > with other virtues... > > This is really a necessary consequuence of trying to deal with > complex situations using relatively limited computational > resources, > as Pei has repeatedly pointed out
Although tangential, if anyone is sensing the discord of infinite recursion in conflict with consistency running through this discussion, I would like to offer my point that an agent's behavior (with respect to its environment, of course) is absolutely consistent with the values implicit in its structure. Goals, on the other hand, can never achieve consistency because they can be assessed only from a hypothetical greater context. FWIW, - Jef ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
