Anthropic reasoning is confusing—probably because we are not used to doing it much in our ancestral environment.
I don’t think you can argue it treats consciousness as a primitive, though. Anthropic reasoning is challenging—but not so tricky that machines can’t do it.
Anthropic reasoning is confusing—probably because we are not used to doing it much in our ancestral environment.
I don’t think you can argue it treats consciousness as a primitive, though. Anthropic reasoning is challenging—but not so tricky that machines can’t do it.
It involves calculating a ‘correct measure’ of how many partial duplicates of a computation exist:
www.nickbostrom.com/papers/experience.pdf
Anthropics does involve magical categories.
Right—but that’s “Arthur C Clark-style magic”—stuff that is complicated and difficult—not the type of magic associated with mystical mumbo-jumbo.
We can live with some of the former type of magic—and it might even spice things up a bit.