cognition in any substantive sense. But sure, every single action/event in the universe is computational.
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Replying to @rechelon @AngloRemnant
ah, the distinction you are making is something analogous to search depth before resort to heuristic?
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Replying to @puellavulnerata @AngloRemnant
You could make that analogy. I see consciousness/cognition as that which looks ahead http://www.alexwg.org/publications/PhysRevLett_110-168702.pdf …
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Replying to @rechelon @AngloRemnant
I think I'm with you on cognition as modeling the universe and looking ahead like that, but...
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...I'm not sure search depth and time preference are equivalent
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Logically, the thing I'm evaluating is still something like a weighted integral of my utility over time
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If I have higher time preference, the point at which contributions from modeling further ahead are smaller than...
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...their computational cost comes sooner - and if computation is really expensive for me, maybe I fall back on...
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...heuristics that don't model the world very well sooner and look high time preference regardless.
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But it still seems logically possible to be high time preference and have the capability to model far ahead
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time "preference" may be a bit of a misnomer in the context of this convo. More like "capability."
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Replying to @AngloRemnant @rechelon
yeah, agreed I think - computational capacity bounding range of implementable preferences
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