Embedded Agency via Abstraction - AI Alignment Forum
Claim: problems of agents embedded in their environment mostly reduce to problems of abstraction. Solve abstraction, and solutions to embedded agency problems will probably just drop out naturally. …
x Embedded Agency via Abstraction — AI Alignment Forum Embedded Agency Subagents Abstraction Frontpage 18 Embedded Agency via Abstraction by johnswentworth 26th Aug 2019 13 min read 20 18 Claim: problems of agents embedded in their environment mostly reduce to problems of abstraction. Solve abstraction, and solutions to embedded agency problems will probably just drop out naturally. The goal of this post is to explain the intuition underlying that claim. The point is not to defend the claim socially or to prove it mathematically, but to illustrate why I personally believe that understanding ab
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