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22 - Shard Theory with Quintin Pope

AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast

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The Effects of Shard Theory on Food Preferences

i'm not a vegan because i don't think made me to stay sick right um. no yeah i mean so so this kind of gets to actually something that seems a bit strange about shard theory to me and it's like these are different contexts in which different shards activate. If you had some fixed utility assigned to like oreo eating versus some fixed utility assigning to like fitness then you'd like strike the expected utility balance between these things. You wouldn't play these weird games with yourself of like hiding the oreo because why would you deprive yourself of information it just seems pointless from the expected utility perspective.

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