I'm missing your point because I don't understand what it means for decision theory to be a "true account of reality", and hence I can neither confirm nor deny that I believe this to be the case.
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Suppose I then suggested that adopting any number of purposes and object distinguishers will nail down this core subsystem surprisingly hard. To the point that alien systems probably agree with ours not only about 2 + 2, but about formulae with no practical use like 85378^397642.
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I agree that math is a domain in which absolute truth applies. (Modulo maybe stuff like the independence of the continuum hypothesis, but let’s ignore that.)
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This is tricky, because rational inference preserves absolute truth, but not mostly-truth. For mostly-truth, you have to constantly keep your eye on how, concretely, the system is relating to reality: which can never be “accurately reflects absolute truths.”
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To me it looks as if you literally fell into a different universe when AI did not work for you, one that exists only in approximate and nebulous and ultimately mysterious ways. Eliezer never had that trauma, he never had his universe break on him.
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Aha! So we can tunnel between universes through intellectual disappointment?! Cool!! This has massive practical implications.
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