Most mappings on the system will be useless. If you regard a particular molecule as having compact preferences and beliefs, it will probably do very poorly. Human beings do have relatively compact preferences and beliefs, on the other hand, and applying it to humans make sense.
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In other words, the conceptual system itself is a tool. So, maybe
@ESYudkowsky is right after all! I do think DT is merely a tool—once you try to apply it to reality, as opposed to considering it as abstract mathematics. -
But, here I mean “a tool for making categorical distinctions in reality” as opposed to “a method for making decisions.”
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This could be nearing your crux. If you both hold agents, goals, decisions constant then perhaps
@ESYudkowsky would say DT is necessarily implied. You wouldn’t.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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