L. A. Paul

In their words

• “Building on Bykvist and Ullmann-Margalit , Paul (2014) and Callard (2018) argue that there is no rational basis for making decisions that change the self.”

  · AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions · machine-resolved

In the claim ledger

4 promoted claims about them. Assessments are the model’s knowledge, not verification.

• There may be no uniquely correct notion of trajectory-level optimality for a person with changing preferences.

  plausible · AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions

• The paper reports the philosophical position that self-changing decisions have no rational grounding.

  consistent · AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions

• The paper endorses Pettigrew's weighted-average-of-selves theory as progress, against Paul's dissent.

  unverifiable · AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions

• The paper reports Paul and Sunstein's post-hoc criterion for a legitimate nudge.

  unverifiable · AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions