From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun May 07 2006 - 12:17:55 MDT
Phillip Huggan wrote:
> I guess the program would need to weigh its own available computer
> resources and divide by the potential aggregate # of human-years of
> suffering or happiness that hangs in the balance of the decision, and
> then pick the highest (tractable) pathway solution.
That's known as an "optimal stopping" rule. The problem being, of
course, that computing the exactly optimal time to spend computing a
good action is often more expensive than computing the exactly best action.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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