vc-route-modification-space
leaf/route · drafted
Statement
A Bayesian agent that reasons about every way it could be modified is represented by a belief space rich enough that the regress of modifications of modifications closes, with a richness assumption that excludes the impoverished-space case of Soares et al. 2015 section 1.
Source
The author in projects/deference/corrigibility-note-dump-2026-10-01/position-statement.md, sections 2.2 and 2.4: "The main problem here, I think, is merely representational: it is not obvious how to represent a Bayesian agent thinking about all the possible ways it could be modified. We need to make assumptions about the richness of the hypothesis space to rule out cases such as the oscillation between opiates and stimulants." The clean-room package projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/packages/corr-reflect-frames lists the open statement universalSelfRefSpace_exists_open.
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universalSelfRefSpace_exists_open
Ranking (the lens, not the structure)
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"weaker": "both"
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"mid": "13/40",
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"33/40"
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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.