RichardKennaway comments on The ideas you're not ready to post - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 22 April 2009 09:47:08PM *  0 points [-]

I know the PCT site :-) It was Bill Powers' first book that introduced me to PCT. Have you tried the demos on that site yourself?

Comment author: cousin_it 23 April 2009 09:41:55AM *  0 points [-]

Yes, I went through all of them several years ago. Like evolutionary psychology, the approach seems to be mostly correct descriptively, even obvious, but not easy to apply to cause actual changes. (Of course utility function-based approaches are much worse.)