Answers.Body: <p>The authors do actually give an English definition in terms of the well-known agent formulation of AI:</p>
  
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    <p>We intend this usage to be intuitive: death means that one sees
    no more percepts, and takes no more actions.</p>
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  <p>It would seem that this becomes possible for a reinforcement learning agent such as AIXI in a formulation that uses <em>semi-measures</em> of probability (which need not sum up to 1), rather than the more traditional notion.</p>
  
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Body: <p>In the paper <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.00652.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Death and Suicide in Universal Artificial Intelligence</a>, a proposal is given for what death could mean for Artificial Intelligence. </p>
  
  <p>What does this mean using English only? I understand that mathematical notation is useful for giving a precise definition, but I'd like to understand what the definition really means. </p>
  
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Title: What does "death" intuitively mean in the paper "Death and Suicide in Universal Artificial Intelligence"?
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ThreadText: # What does "death" intuitively mean in the paper "Death and Suicide in Universal Artificial Intelligence"?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-08-06)
  
  In the paper [Death and Suicide in Universal Artificial Intelligence](http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.00652.pdf), a proposal is given for what death could mean for Artificial Intelligence.
  
  What does this mean using English only? I understand that mathematical notation is useful for giving a precise definition, but I'd like to understand what the definition really means.
  
  **Tags:** research, definitions, agi, death, aixi
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-08-06. Score: 7 | Accepted answer
  
  The authors do actually give an English definition in terms of the well-known agent formulation of AI:
  
  > We intend this usage to be intuitive: death means that one sees
  > no more percepts, and takes no more actions.
  
  It would seem that this becomes possible for a reinforcement learning agent such as AIXI in a formulation that uses *semi-measures* of probability (which need not sum up to 1), rather than the more traditional notion.
  
  
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