I notice I like “you are an algorithm” better than “you are a computation”, since “computation” feels like it could point to a specific instantiation of an algorithm, and I think that algorithm as opposed to instantiation of an algorithm is an important part of it.
To be slightly more precise, I think I historically felt like I identify with like 60% of framings in the general MIRI cluster(at least the way it appears in public outputs) and now I’m like 80%+, and part of the difference here was that I already was pretty into stuff like empiricism, materalism, Bayesianism, etc, but I previously (not very reflectively) had opinions and intuitions in the direction of thinking myself as an computational instance, and these days I can understand the algorithmic framing much better (even though it’s still not very intuitive/natural to me).
I notice I like “you are an algorithm” better than “you are a computation”, since “computation” feels like it could point to a specific instantiation of an algorithm, and I think that algorithm as opposed to instantiation of an algorithm is an important part of it.
This sounds right to me. FDT feels more natural when I think of myself as an algorithm than when I think of myself as a computation, for example.
To be slightly more precise, I think I historically felt like I identify with like 60% of framings in the general MIRI cluster(at least the way it appears in public outputs) and now I’m like 80%+, and part of the difference here was that I already was pretty into stuff like empiricism, materalism, Bayesianism, etc, but I previously (not very reflectively) had opinions and intuitions in the direction of thinking myself as an computational instance, and these days I can understand the algorithmic framing much better (even though it’s still not very intuitive/natural to me).
(Numbers made up and not well thought out)