On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:41:04AM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > > But Russell seems to think that "specific reason" means some > "objective", i.e. publicly determinable reason. In general one's > utility function is private, subjective and not known to others or > maybe even to yourself. >
Not at all - the utility function need not be publicly known in order to model it via observation. All that is required is for the agent's actions to be consistent with optimising the utility in order to build an effective model of the agent's utility via induction. This still leads to agent predictability, and the agent is neverthless still deterministic. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
