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22 - Shard Theory with Quintin Pope

AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast

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The Constraints of Hard Theory on Utility Optimization

Under the chart theory point of view i've got all these shards which are somehow simple but they can combine in really complicated ways right. A naive person might have said oh hey here's what humans are doing they're like optimizing the amount of cash they have in a utility optimal way and then shard theory rules out that kind of story. Even if you could derive a utility function it would be extremely complicated, especially if defined over all possible future configurations of the universe or trajectories over universe evolution.

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