rather the everyday usage of “real” refers to the model with the currently-best predictive ability
Errr… no? I don’t think this is true. I’m guessing that you want to point out that we don’t have direct access to the territory and that maps is all we have, but that’s not very relevant to the original issue of replacing “I find it convenient to think of that code as wanting something” with “this code wants” and insisting that the code’s desires are real.
Errr… no? I don’t think this is true. I’m guessing that you want to point out that we don’t have direct access to the territory and that maps is all we have, but that’s not very relevant to the original issue of replacing “I find it convenient to think of that code as wanting something” with “this code wants” and insisting that the code’s desires are real.
Anthropomorphization is not the way to reality.