Your proposed reformulation of convergent subgoals sounds interesting, but I see a big flaw in your post: you don’t even state the applications you’re doing the deconfusion for. And in my book, the applications are THE way of judging whether deconfusion is creating valuable knowledge. So I don’t know yet if your framing will help with the sort of problems related to agency and goal-directedness that I think matter.
Reserving judgment until the follow up posts then.
Fair enough; apologies. We are building to an answer to the question “What is agency and why is it powerful/competitive/incentivised/selected-for.” We have a lot more to say on the subject but we decided to break it into pieces; this post is the first piece.
Your proposed reformulation of convergent subgoals sounds interesting, but I see a big flaw in your post: you don’t even state the applications you’re doing the deconfusion for. And in my book, the applications are THE way of judging whether deconfusion is creating valuable knowledge. So I don’t know yet if your framing will help with the sort of problems related to agency and goal-directedness that I think matter.
Reserving judgment until the follow up posts then.
Fair enough; apologies. We are building to an answer to the question “What is agency and why is it powerful/competitive/incentivised/selected-for.” We have a lot more to say on the subject but we decided to break it into pieces; this post is the first piece.
Exciting! Waiting for the next posts even more then.
Don’t get your expectations too high, haha. We haven’t written the other parts yet, maybe they won’t turn out to be that good.