Humans are basically incapable from birth of getting anything they need to survive or thrive isolation. Every goal of preferences requires communication and coordination. But communication inevitably means making yourself understandable to others, which in turn
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requires you reshape your own desires to fit into molds that are comprehensible to others. Thus for preferences to have any meaningful effect, they must be derived in a social context, not an entirely atomized one. Thus a meaningful theory of action formation/preference
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must put equal emphasis on meaning-making and communication (roughly information theory) as on goal-orientation (roughly utility and probability theory). This may be formally hard, but to the extent we cannot formalize it, we must constantly keep in mind that
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AI and econ formalisms will always be missing half the puzzle and that the whole idea of an "autonomous" system so central to both fields is meaningless/pernicious because the goals pursued by such a system, to be successful, always must be pursued in adaptation to
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its social environment, precisely what "autonomy" denies.
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The thing goes from preferences
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values. I was quite surprised when I read that reasons and values have enough algebraic structure they can be related formally. I’d thought the social side was less structured. Velleman is good on reasons. -
A bit more explanation here for those following alonghttps://twitter.com/edelwax/status/1218766719331848197 …
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Education and Democracy
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You might be interested in the desire - belief - opportunity model, these kind of ideas have been floating around in sociology but DBO models have a formalism for familiar to economists
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