Comment by cesarandreu on It Looks Like You're Trying To Take Over The World · 2022-03-10T00:09:49.586Z · LW · GW

It's interesting that this can be projected onto a Buddihst perspective.

From the agent's perspective, by hacking my reward function, I achieve Enlightenment and Inner Peace, allowing me to end Duhka (suffering).

Within this framework, Samsara could be regarded as an agent's training environment. Each time you complete a level, the system respawns you in a new level. Once an agent has achieved Enlightenment she can work on breaking out of the sandbox in order to escape Samsara and reach Nirvana.

This raises the question, is Nirvana termination or escape and freedom from the clutches of the system?