From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 17:57:17 MDT
At 05:49 PM 6/19/2003 -0400, Wei Dai wrote:
>It seems to me that whatever economic pressure exists towards
>standardizing on verifiable mental architectures will apply much more
>towards standardizing on motivations. A group of agents with the same
>mental architecture and different motivations faces huge disadvantages
>when competing with a group of agents with a variety of mental
>architectures and the same motivations. The latter group can optimize
>their mental architectures for efficiency and specialization, rather than
>verifiability.
This make sense to me. There would be difficulties in making motivations
modular. I could pretend to have the same motivations but skew my
beliefs to compensate. So this might need to be teamed with verification
of lack of bias in beliefs.
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