@ai @Arcana @MercurialBuilding @hidden I dont exactly view my highly ideosyncratic views on existing in an ensemble of universes in a mathematical multiverse held together by logical causality, and object identity defined by a logical holographic principle, as being purely a product of UDT but it's what got me thinking about these questions a long time ago as a young teenage rationalist

> I'm not sure I fully grok the last point because I can imagine an algorithm which merely processes information and draws inferences without making decisions, maximizing utilities, or computing optimal actions.

what is "computing an optimal action", if not "processing information and drawing inferences"? the point is that that an action is optimal, reflects actual features of the territory, not the map