if we’re talking about predicting what ML people will do, the sentence “the value function is a function of the latent variables in the world model” makes a lot more sense than the clarification “even abstract concepts are assigned values”.
OK sure, that’s fair. Point well taken. I was thinking about more brain-like neural nets that parse things into compositional pieces. If I wanted to be more prosaic maybe I would say something like: “She is differentiating both sides of the equation” could have a different value than “She is writing down a bunch of funny symbols”, even if both are coming from the exact same camera inputs.
OK sure, that’s fair. Point well taken. I was thinking about more brain-like neural nets that parse things into compositional pieces. If I wanted to be more prosaic maybe I would say something like: “She is differentiating both sides of the equation” could have a different value than “She is writing down a bunch of funny symbols”, even if both are coming from the exact same camera inputs.