This is why people can sometimes see criticism/feedback as an attack. Literally *all* criticism, if untranslated, is a commandment to do the literally impossible.
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Not sure, but it seems to me that a brain that works that way is fairly appropriate for a relatively static context, including both: • static environmental threats (predator animals / enemy humans) • static culture (in Deutschian sense & more generally)
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Hm. when people say things like that, I have kind of a threat response. (I know you don't mean anything bad by it, just reflecting here.)
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But I'm also interested in trying to come at this from the other angle: "If we assume we have an agent trying to get what it wants, with noisy information and bounded computation but otherwise no hard-coded flaws, how would or could this failure mode emerge?"
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If the answer is "EVERY agent (meeting certain requirements) will necessarily have this failure mode under these circumstances", that a.) makes it more likely that we're correct that this is actually how the emotional brain works, and b.) gives us more info about how to hack it.
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If upon detecting a familiar situation, you reinstate a previous mental state, you can retrieve cached responses to that situation and react more quickly; and intense emotion tends to signal a need to act quickly. https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(19)30061-0 …pic.twitter.com/qy5rBseu0f
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Slightly more speculatively, to the extent that emotional intensity codes for life or death in some sense, having survived it suggests that you responded appropriately. Thus inflexible response patterns to trauma - reliving and re-enacting the same response that worked before.
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