sark comments on Nature: Red, in Truth and Qualia - Less Wrong

35 Post author: orthonormal 29 May 2011 11:50PM

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Comment author: sark 04 June 2011 09:27:18AM 0 points [-]

If the learning agent does not find any new knowledge why does it make Martha report having learned something new? Why not make her feel as if nothing changed?

Comment author: orthonormal 05 June 2011 02:34:13PM 1 point [-]

(Sort of redundant because we talked about this at the meetup, but:)

That's a contingent feature of the learning agent, not a necessary one. As with the feeling of déjà vu (searching memories for a match that isn't there), we're consciously aware of the error messages generated by this agent.