Cauldron this raises two questions first why did the broom start overflowing The Cauldron and secondly why is there a
of the boiling cauldron of you know simmering disaection that can lead to simmering disaection that can lead to these sorts of things happening.
points if the cauldron's empty this seems simple enough then Mickey might uh write a
to just fill the cauldron because when it gets smart enough it'll decide that filling the cauldron's dumb and go do something else right you could program
filling The Cauldron is dumb and then acts accordingly but you could also program something that just always executes the action that it predicts
It becomes a cauldron in which you have information theorists, quantum theorists, like Shockley to some extent, and certainly Bardeen.
over the cauldron passing their eye back and forth. we are assembled a group
So how long does that cauldron have to So how long does that cauldron have to simmer away before it starts boiling and
subjective uh 99.9% probability that The Cauldron will be full uh and it has all
there might be a leak in The Cauldron uh it might it sensors might not be working correctly there might be someone trying
uh it's filling The Cauldron requires like getting water pouring it uh getting water in the buckets carrying those buckets a long way pouring it in that's
And below us was this cauldron of a lake, largest volcanic lake on the planet, which didn't look like much until it got dark.
It was a water-filled cauldron, that's the big container you see, heated by a fire, obviously, with a pair of tubes projecting upwards from its lid.
affordable way then you do have the kind of the boiling cauldron of you know
Enchanted a broom to do uh his chore filling The Cauldron uh so how might Mickey do this
to take the the water out of the cauldron I mean presumably Mickey wanted The Cauldron full for a reason and someone's going to get the water out uh
more task task like we sort of wanted to fill The Cauldron enough and then stop and you could try to do that by putting
there would clearly be uh an incentive to overfill the cauldron it was it was bounded uh and it was very simple you
sometimes Mickey tries to get water out of the cauldron and Mickey will when Mickey realizes uh that the objective
try to both technically suspend well also filling The Cauldron to get both like just a just a hedes bets uh but but
least to the highest score where the score is The Cauldron fullness uh so so this proposition says you can in theory
It has been a bubbling, broiling cauldron of dozens of different cultures, and societies, and civilizations, and empires for thousands
we are culturally right now, which is the cauldron of transformation.
so there's all these there's all these small probabilities that the cauldron's not quite full and you know there's nothing else uh you know the the the
sort of default actions of sit around and do nothing after The Cauldron looks pretty full isn't going to make the color any Fuller uh so may as well the
towards things like making more brooms that can help make sure that the cauldron's full what else was the resource going to do like the action
The first day I put the chapter on the personal computer and the California cauldron of tribes
Right? And a big bubbling cauldron of mac and cheese, it might not be gourmet mac and cheese.
this layer of cool air and the mountains here it's like a cauldron keeping things very stagnant and
But anyway, she has a huge copper cauldron. And they—-we'd go down to the market place and she has her fishermen and they bring in all these little tiny fish, and she makes
99.9% uh once it has very high confidence that the bucket's full uh or that the that their cauldron's full well
with a task like goal where uh there's there sort of uh the goal we had in our heads for filling The Cauldron was much
that it sure would be nice if we knew how to do this before we tried to animate brooms to fill cauldrons for us
the system so uh many of the goals that we actually want are significantly more complicated than filic cauldron uh and
and the workplace, is that is allows me to create sort of a cauldron in my own mind by which I'm trying to understand
preparing investments, and so there's this enormous-- it's like a cauldron, essentially it's all just bubbling, and the future is the big mystery.
And so every day in Somalia, especially when I was held alone, was this sort of maddening cauldron of anger terrible food.
Now we had, next to the station, a place where to put a cauldron like this, a copper.
we children, we were five, we hold a sort of cloth over the cauldron
start by writing down some sort of scoring function or objective function uh where in this case the broom gets one point if the cauldron's full and zero