Well, I did try reading your posts 6 months ago, and I found them confusing, in large part because I was thinking about the exact problem I’m talking about here, and I didn’t understand how your proposal would get around that problem or solve it. We had a comment exchange here somewhat related to that, but I was still confused after the exchange … and it wound up on my to-do list … and it’s still on my to-do list to this day … :-P
Definitely my sequence of 6 months ago is not about doing counterfactual planning by modifying somewhat opaque million-node causal networks that might be generated by machine learning. The main idea is to show planning world model modifications that you can apply even when you have no way of decoding opaque machine-learned functions.
Well, I did try reading your posts 6 months ago, and I found them confusing, in large part because I was thinking about the exact problem I’m talking about here, and I didn’t understand how your proposal would get around that problem or solve it. We had a comment exchange here somewhat related to that, but I was still confused after the exchange … and it wound up on my to-do list … and it’s still on my to-do list to this day … :-P
I know all about that kind of to-do list.
Definitely my sequence of 6 months ago is not about doing counterfactual planning by modifying somewhat opaque million-node causal networks that might be generated by machine learning. The main idea is to show planning world model modifications that you can apply even when you have no way of decoding opaque machine-learned functions.