Why is ‘constraining anticipation’ the only acceptable form of rent?
What if a belief doesn’t modify the predictions generated by the map, but it does reduce the computational complexity of moving around the map in our imaginations? It hasn’t reduced anticipation in theory, but in practice it allows us to more cheaply collapse anticipation fields, because it lowers the computational complexity of reasoning about what to anticipate in a given scenario? I find concepts like the multiverse very useful here—you don’t ‘need’ them to reduce your anticipation as long as you’re willing to spend more time and computation to model a given situation, but the multiverse concept is very, very useful in quickly collapsing anticipation fields about spaces of possibility outcomes.
Or, what if a belief just makes you feel really good and gives you a ton of energy, allowing you to more successfully accomplish your goals and avoid worrying about things that your rational mind knows are low probability, but which you haven’t been able to un-stuck from your brain? Does that count as acceptable rent? If not, why not?
Or, what if a belief just steamrolls over the ‘predictive making’ process and just hardwires useful actions in a given context? If you took a pill that made you become totally blissed out, wireheading you, but it made you extremely effective at accomplishing your goals prior to taking the pill ,why wouldn’t you take it?
What’s so special about making predictions, over, say, overcoming fear, anxiety and akrasia?
Why is ‘constraining anticipation’ the only acceptable form of rent?
What if a belief doesn’t modify the predictions generated by the map, but it does reduce the computational complexity of moving around the map in our imaginations? It hasn’t reduced anticipation in theory, but in practice it allows us to more cheaply collapse anticipation fields, because it lowers the computational complexity of reasoning about what to anticipate in a given scenario? I find concepts like the multiverse very useful here—you don’t ‘need’ them to reduce your anticipation as long as you’re willing to spend more time and computation to model a given situation, but the multiverse concept is very, very useful in quickly collapsing anticipation fields about spaces of possibility outcomes.
Or, what if a belief just makes you feel really good and gives you a ton of energy, allowing you to more successfully accomplish your goals and avoid worrying about things that your rational mind knows are low probability, but which you haven’t been able to un-stuck from your brain? Does that count as acceptable rent? If not, why not?
Or, what if a belief just steamrolls over the ‘predictive making’ process and just hardwires useful actions in a given context? If you took a pill that made you become totally blissed out, wireheading you, but it made you extremely effective at accomplishing your goals prior to taking the pill ,why wouldn’t you take it?
What’s so special about making predictions, over, say, overcoming fear, anxiety and akrasia?