Viliam_Bur comments on To what degree do you model people as agents? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 25 August 2013 04:49:06PM 3 points [-]

Is an agent more sophisticated than a complex system, or vice versa?

Agent is a specific kind of a complex system.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 August 2013 02:48:08PM 0 points [-]

I thought we were pretending that the two are mutually exclusive. Agents have magical free will, complex systems don't.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 31 August 2013 09:55:15AM 0 points [-]

Okay. I just don't like words defined as "X, except for Y" (specifically: complex systems, except for those who have magical free will). If we tried to avoid this "excepting", the question would be rephrased as:

Is a complex system with magical free will more sophisticated than a complex system without magical free will, or vice versa?

But I am not sure how exactly that helps, so... uhm, end of nitpicking.

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