Johnicholas comments on The Protagonist Problem - Less Wrong

17 Post author: atucker 23 October 2011 03:06AM

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Comment author: Johnicholas 23 October 2011 12:06:46PM -1 points [-]

The dashed/inaccurate is more valuable than solid, but it's not really the connection that's the locus of inaccuracy.

If instead the self-model contained a diagram inside of it, then we could see that the connection self-model to planning is working fine, it's the diagram inside self-model that is wrong.

Comment author: atucker 23 October 2011 05:05:32PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, pretty much this.

The Self-Model is accurately saying that it doesn't see anything because it's not getting visual input, but it's failing to be an accurate self-model because other parts can still see, and vision can be acted on in a limited way.