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A Rephrasing Of and Footnote To An Embedded Agency Proposal

📅 2022
technical research breakthrough
⚪ Common
#ai #decision theory #embedded agency

📖 Description

I wanted to clarify some comments made in [this post](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/TnkDtTAqCGetvLsgr/a-possible-resolution-to-spurious-counterfactuals), which proposed a way to resolve the issues brought up in the Action Counterfactuals subsection of [the Embedded Agency paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.09469.pdf). I noticed that my ideal edits would end up rewriting the post almost completely (it wasn't particularly clear), and I wanted to more coherently lay out the thinking.

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