(Yeah, the argument would have been something like, given a sufficiently rich and explanatory concept of “agent”, goal-driven agents might not be possible—or more precisely, they aren’t agents insofar as they’re making tradeoffs in favor of local homeostatic-like improvements as opposed to traditionally-rational, complex, normatively loaded decision policies. Or something like that.)
(Yeah, the argument would have been something like, given a sufficiently rich and explanatory concept of “agent”, goal-driven agents might not be possible—or more precisely, they aren’t agents insofar as they’re making tradeoffs in favor of local homeostatic-like improvements as opposed to traditionally-rational, complex, normatively loaded decision policies. Or something like that.)