Swimmer963 comments on The Human's Hidden Utility Function (Maybe) - Less Wrong

44 Post author: lukeprog 23 January 2012 07:39PM

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 23 January 2012 09:13:00PM 6 points [-]

I'm not sure I understand the difference between 2 and 3. The term pavlovian is being applied to the third system, but 2 sounds more like the archtypal pavlovian learned response (dog learns that bell results in food). Does 3 refer exclusively to pre-encoded pleasant/unpleasant responses rather than learned ones? Or is there maybe a distinction between a value and an action response that I'm missing?

Comment author: Swimmer963 23 January 2012 11:24:04PM 1 point [-]

It appears to me like 3 is only pre-encoded preferences, whereas 2 refers to preferences that are learned in an automatic, "reflex-like" way...which, yeah, sounds a lot like the Pavlovian learned response.