For instance, it’s easy to construct a lossy map that takes high dimensional data to low dimensional data, whether or not it’s useful seems like a different issue.
Yep. Most such maps are useless (to you) because the goals you have occupy a small fraction of the possible goals in goal-space.
You might also reply to this, “no, condensation of information without goal-relevance is just condensation of information, but it is not an abstraction” but then the claim that an abstraction only exists with goal-relevance seems tautilogical.
Nope, all condensation of information is abstraction. Different abstractions imply different regions of goal-space are more likely to contain your goals.
Yep. Most such maps are useless (to you) because the goals you have occupy a small fraction of the possible goals in goal-space.
Nope, all condensation of information is abstraction. Different abstractions imply different regions of goal-space are more likely to contain your goals.