On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses
On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses
Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences. Audio version.
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Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences. Audio version.

TL;DR: Fanboying JvN, then a nuts-and-bolts description of the von-Neumann-Morgenstern theorem. A connection to reward modeling, some simulations, and pretty figures!
Jan Hendrik Kirchner
Jul 03, 2022
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On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses
Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences
Johnny did it. Last week I offhandedly mentioned the unlikely possibility that my coworkers are clones of John von Neumann. I need to explain that a bit more ——— It was a compliment, I swear! John von Neumann was... a "genius" doesn't quite do it justice. The …
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