WTF is meta-rational? Every end is a mean to another: in view of the second end, it is rational or not. Metarationality requires Aquinas' Summum Bonum or Buddha's dukkha.
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Definition and brief summary of meta-rationality, as I use the term:https://meaningness.com/eggplant/terms#meta …
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That's one way to look at it. Another is that many of these specifications are game rules actually intended for human beings and dependent on human interpretation. The algorithms expose and exploit the gap between perfectly adequate rules for humans and formal specifications.
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Excellent point, yes!
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Please, if you haven't, read the short article "The Problem of the Problem" by Getzels. So. Damn. Good.
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Found it https://www.evandriscoll.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Problem-Of-The-Problem-Getzels.pdf … "At the core of an effective solution is a productive problem. It is this that makes the problem of the problem such and important subject for systematic inquiry."
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This is remarkably similar to how people behave inside simulated environments. In online games this is called cheating and in single player games it’s a cornerstone of speed runs.
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Examples: https://www.google.com/amp/s/kotaku.com/new-glitch-reignites-the-super-mario-bros-speedrun-rac-1787596081/amp … https://www.google.com/amp/s/kotaku.com/the-man-who-does-the-impossible-in-super-mario-64-1656869221/amp … Also, can’t find link right now but one included glitching our of the game world and using that to “teleport” to other parts of the game.
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I agree, but where does the tower of meta-rational problem specifications end? I argue (Transhu-)man is the measure of all things, & conscious decision-making, qualia & all, is required for human+ level intelligence.
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Without conscious "autogeny", systems are forever plagued by "formalist float":https://goo.gl/124qB9
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