Do bacteria need to be VNM agents?
How about ducks?
Do ants need to be VNM agents?
How about anthills?
Do proteins need to be VNM agents?
How about leukocytes?
Do dogs need to be VNM agents?
How about trees?
Do planets (edit: specifically, populated ones) need to be VNM agents?
How about countries?
Or neighborhoods?
Or interest groups?
Or families?
Or companies?
Or unions?
Or friend groups?
Art groups?
For each of these, which of the assumptions of the VNM framework break, and why?
How do we represent preferences which are not located in a single place?
Or not fully defined at a single time?
What framework lets us natively represent a unit of partially specified preference? If macro agency arises from what Michael Levin calls “agential materials”, how do we represent how the small scale selfhood aggregates?
At what scale does agency arise, how do we know, and how are preferences represented?
Pasting the above to Claude gets mildly interesting results. I’d be interested in human thoughts.
Do bacteria need to be VNM agents?
How about ducks?
Do ants need to be VNM agents?
How about anthills?
Do proteins need to be VNM agents?
How about leukocytes?
Do dogs need to be VNM agents?
How about trees?
Do planets (edit: specifically, populated ones) need to be VNM agents?
How about countries?
Or neighborhoods?
Or interest groups?
Or families?
Or companies?
Or unions?
Or friend groups?
Art groups?
For each of these, which of the assumptions of the VNM framework break, and why?
How do we represent preferences which are not located in a single place?
Or not fully defined at a single time?
What framework lets us natively represent a unit of partially specified preference? If macro agency arises from what Michael Levin calls “agential materials”, how do we represent how the small scale selfhood aggregates?
At what scale does agency arise, how do we know, and how are preferences represented?
Pasting the above to Claude gets mildly interesting results. I’d be interested in human thoughts.