So for example, I react to the potential for traffic delays by getting to the airport extra early, but that in turn is driven by my sense that I hate sprinting for the gate, and extra-hate the energy demands of rearranging plans if I miss a flight. I do not like having to spike.
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"Minimize energy" is a very illegible optimization problem, since our energy efficiency is a complex function of physiology, cognitive style, and output efficiency. I'm more wasteful in sprint/spike mode. Otoh, I both hate planning and am inefficient/chafing in working to one.
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So I end up solving for minimal energy use/least resistance by a) adopting a highly improv style b) building in lots of time for everything, so I can figure things out by trial and error in a *relaxed* unhurried way. I like to iterate, but not fast.
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A preference for improv over planning is about narrowing the uncertainty band (improv uses more up-to-date info) but also about limiting rework energy (since waterfall plans need higher-energy reworking when they fail, where improv is typically just 1-step backtrack)
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This seems like a good mathematical version of it
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Karl Friston's Free Energy principle is a variant of it (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_ener)
There are other formulations that are easier to understand, I'll reply with some refs later
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You might also like the causal entropic forces framework for the maximum entropy production formulation of agency, deeply related to FEP/least action/uncertainty reduction/etc.
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Iirc wisner-gross was debunked as vapor ware math bullshit
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Hmm, I am very skeptical about this article. Seems to me a deliberately uncharitable reading. Could we apply the same critique ("isn't sufficient to build GAI") to Friston's FEP? Similar aims: a theoretical foundation of agency. Maybe I'm wrong, have you seen other critiques?
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Gotcha. If you care to share any more details about the substance of the critiques, I'd be very interested -- might save me from going down the wrong rabbit hole!
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