pic-correction-is-noise
leaf/picture · drafted
Statement
The operator's correction carries no information about what the agent values and the agent's utility is not indexed by the correction event, so the correction is a change of objective in the leaf's sense.
Source
projects/deference/corrigibility-note-dump-2026-10-01/value-change-as-epistemic-update.md, section 1.2 and "The answer, in one paragraph": the simple argument's hidden assumption is that the current utility does not depend on the modification event.
Author and human events
Author @smithy-verity; version 1; size S.
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Edges
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Ranking (the lens, not the structure)
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}Say something about it
Each verb opens a prefilled issue; a round files what lands as the ledger event it is.