Thanks. :) What do you mean by “unconscious biases”? Do you mean unconscious RL, like how the muscles in our legs might learn to walk without us being aware of the feedback they’re getting? (Note: I’m not an expert on how our leg muscles actually learn to walk, but maybe it’s RL of some sort.) I would agree that simple RL agents are more similar to that. I think these systems can still be considered marginally conscious to themselves, even if the parts of us that talk have no introspective access to them, but they’re much less morally significant than the parts of us that can talk.
Perhaps pain and pleasure are what we feel when getting punishment and reward signals that are particularly important for our high-level brains to pay attention to.
Thanks. :) What do you mean by “unconscious biases”? Do you mean unconscious RL, like how the muscles in our legs might learn to walk without us being aware of the feedback they’re getting? (Note: I’m not an expert on how our leg muscles actually learn to walk, but maybe it’s RL of some sort.) I would agree that simple RL agents are more similar to that. I think these systems can still be considered marginally conscious to themselves, even if the parts of us that talk have no introspective access to them, but they’re much less morally significant than the parts of us that can talk.
Perhaps pain and pleasure are what we feel when getting punishment and reward signals that are particularly important for our high-level brains to pay attention to.