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

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Comment author: Vaniver 27 August 2013 08:08:14PM 2 points [-]

Mostly. I'm trying to make the concept precise and transparent; saying "an agent is a person who gets stuff done" leaves the mechanism by which they get things done opaque, and most of the posts discussing agency seem to have a flavor of "an agent is a person who gets my stuff done" (notably including the possibility that the speaker is not an agent in that sense).