I may regret getting involved here, but I want to make sure I understand what you’re claiming.
Just to get specific… say I have a model, M1. Analyzing M1 causes me to predict that eating this thing in my hand, T1, will cause me pleasure. I eat T1 and experience disgust. I apply various heuristics I happen to have encoded to use under similar circumstances in order to modify my model, giving me M2. I pick up a new thing T2, and analyzing M2 causes me to predict eating T2 will cause me pleasure. I eat T2 and experience pleasure. I go on about my day using M2 rather than M1.
The way you’re using the terms, what parts of this example are the “map”, and what parts are the “territory”?
You are talking about a different sort of system than I am....
Maximising “pleasure” is somewhat different from maximising a high level concept such “paper-clips” . There is only generally one way to find out about “pleasure” and it is immediate. You don’t need to heavily process percepts into your model to figure out if you are “pleasured” or not.
So I think your point will miss the mark… But M1 and M2 are part of the maps, the facts that you think you there are such things as T1 and T2 and they have been picked up and eaten and have caused you pleasure are also part of the map. The direct perception of pleasure is not part of the map or the territory and if this is the domain of your utility function you should be okay from the type of problems I described.
I may regret getting involved here, but I want to make sure I understand what you’re claiming.
Just to get specific… say I have a model, M1. Analyzing M1 causes me to predict that eating this thing in my hand, T1, will cause me pleasure. I eat T1 and experience disgust. I apply various heuristics I happen to have encoded to use under similar circumstances in order to modify my model, giving me M2. I pick up a new thing T2, and analyzing M2 causes me to predict eating T2 will cause me pleasure. I eat T2 and experience pleasure. I go on about my day using M2 rather than M1.
The way you’re using the terms, what parts of this example are the “map”, and what parts are the “territory”?
You are talking about a different sort of system than I am....
Maximising “pleasure” is somewhat different from maximising a high level concept such “paper-clips” . There is only generally one way to find out about “pleasure” and it is immediate. You don’t need to heavily process percepts into your model to figure out if you are “pleasured” or not.
So I think your point will miss the mark… But M1 and M2 are part of the maps, the facts that you think you there are such things as T1 and T2 and they have been picked up and eaten and have caused you pleasure are also part of the map. The direct perception of pleasure is not part of the map or the territory and if this is the domain of your utility function you should be okay from the type of problems I described.
Thanks for clarifying.