Oh, I wasn’t really trying at all to talk about what prediction-error minimization “really does” there, more to point out that it changes radically depending on your modeling assumptions.
The “distal causes” bit is also something I really want to find the time and expertise to formalize. There are studies of causal judgements grounding moral responsibility of agents and I’d really like to see if we can use the notion of distal causation to generalize from there to how people learn causal models that capture action-affordances.
Oh, I wasn’t really trying at all to talk about what prediction-error minimization “really does” there, more to point out that it changes radically depending on your modeling assumptions.
The “distal causes” bit is also something I really want to find the time and expertise to formalize. There are studies of causal judgements grounding moral responsibility of agents and I’d really like to see if we can use the notion of distal causation to generalize from there to how people learn causal models that capture action-affordances.