Yeah, I think the §3.3.1 pattern (intrinsic surprisingness) is narrower than the §3.3.4 pattern (intrinsic surprisingness but with an ability to make medium-term predictions).
But they tend to go together so much in practice (life experience) that when we see the former we generally kinda assume the latter. An exception might be, umm, a person spasming, or having a seizure? Or a drunkard wandering about randomly? Hmm, maybe those don’t count because there are still some desires, e.g. the drunkard wants to remain standing.
I agree that agency / life-force has a strong connotation of the §3.3.4 thing, not just the §3.3.1 thing. Or at least, it seems to have that connotation in my own intuitions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel like life-force seems like a sensation that’s different from what I’d expect from just having a thing in the world model with inherent surprisingness and ends-without-trajectory-predictions/”optimizerness” attached. (“Life-force” sounds more like “as if the thing had a soul” to me. I do not understand where this comes from but I don’t see how I’d predict such a sensation in advance given just the inherent-surprisingness + optimizerness hypothesis.)
Yeah, I think the §3.3.1 pattern (intrinsic surprisingness) is narrower than the §3.3.4 pattern (intrinsic surprisingness but with an ability to make medium-term predictions).
But they tend to go together so much in practice (life experience) that when we see the former we generally kinda assume the latter. An exception might be, umm, a person spasming, or having a seizure? Or a drunkard wandering about randomly? Hmm, maybe those don’t count because there are still some desires, e.g. the drunkard wants to remain standing.
I agree that agency / life-force has a strong connotation of the §3.3.4 thing, not just the §3.3.1 thing. Or at least, it seems to have that connotation in my own intuitions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel like life-force seems like a sensation that’s different from what I’d expect from just having a thing in the world model with inherent surprisingness and ends-without-trajectory-predictions/”optimizerness” attached. (“Life-force” sounds more like “as if the thing had a soul” to me. I do not understand where this comes from but I don’t see how I’d predict such a sensation in advance given just the inherent-surprisingness + optimizerness hypothesis.)