RomeoStevens comments on [SEQ RERUN] The Comedy of Behaviorism - Less Wrong

0 Post author: MinibearRex 20 July 2012 04:10AM

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 20 July 2012 11:14:26AM 4 points [-]

the useful bits of "variable X" are the behaviors you expect to see because of it. The word "Anger" is just a tag for a particular grouping of phenomena.

Comment author: MinibearRex 21 July 2012 05:21:00AM 2 points [-]

Yeah, but it's very hard to predict what exactly variable X is going to do, unless you know that it stands for anger.