I find it useful to use Marr’s representation/traversal distinction to think about how systems use Aether variables. Sometimes the complexity/uncertainty gets pushed into the representation to favor simpler/faster traversals (common in most computer science algorithm designs) and sometimes the uncertainty gets pushed into the traversal to favor a simpler representation (common in normal human cognition due to working memory constraints, or any situation with mem constraints).
From this, I had an easier time thinking about how a simplicity bias is really (often?) a modularity bias, so that we can get composability in our causal models.
I find it useful to use Marr’s representation/traversal distinction to think about how systems use Aether variables. Sometimes the complexity/uncertainty gets pushed into the representation to favor simpler/faster traversals (common in most computer science algorithm designs) and sometimes the uncertainty gets pushed into the traversal to favor a simpler representation (common in normal human cognition due to working memory constraints, or any situation with mem constraints).
From this, I had an easier time thinking about how a simplicity bias is really (often?) a modularity bias, so that we can get composability in our causal models.