But not only that “Agentic”, with a “c”, indicates something very different:
“the more you can predict its actions from its goals since its actions will be whatever will maximize the chances of achieving its goals.
This is flatly in contradiction with the fact, often pointed out here, that I can predict the outcome of a chess game between myself and a grandmaster, but I cannot predict his moves. If I could, I would be a grandmaster or better myself, and then the outcome of the game would be uncertain.
Agency has sometimes been contrasted with sphexishness, the blind execution of cached algorithms without regard for effectiveness.
That blind execution is precisely the sort of thing one can predict, after having spent some time watching the sphex wasp. So that paragraph is about 180° wrong.
This is flatly in contradiction with the fact, often pointed out here, that I can predict the outcome of a chess game between myself and a grandmaster, but I cannot predict his moves. If I could, I would be a grandmaster or better myself, and then the outcome of the game would be uncertain.
The quoted text goes on to say:
That blind execution is precisely the sort of thing one can predict, after having spent some time watching the sphex wasp. So that paragraph is about 180° wrong.