To be clear, I don’t necessarily think you’re wrong about how bio brains do it. A lot rests on the word “reliably”. One possible explanation for sexual fetishes is that the human biological mechanism for pointing at sexual partners is quite unreliable (a hypothesis I predict you agree with).
But if we could get a similar mechanism to work reliably, we’d have a mechanism for pointing learning machines at things in the world.
To be clear, I don’t necessarily think you’re wrong about how bio brains do it. A lot rests on the word “reliably”. One possible explanation for sexual fetishes is that the human biological mechanism for pointing at sexual partners is quite unreliable (a hypothesis I predict you agree with).
But if we could get a similar mechanism to work reliably, we’d have a mechanism for pointing learning machines at things in the world.