Armok_GoB comments on The Stamp Collector - LessWrong

23 Post author: So8res 01 May 2015 11:11PM

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Comment author: torekp 02 May 2015 03:00:00PM 1 point [-]

Thanks for this. One quibble: I think it's misleading to say actions are rated according to what they achieve. Consider dancing. What dancing achieves, first and foremost, is dancing. More generally, some features of actions may be valued or disvalued as terminal values, independent of any (non-tautological) consequences. It's not hard to imagine patterns of behavior for which this is the most elegant explanation.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 31 May 2015 06:31:11PM 0 points [-]

Um no. The specif sequence of muscle contractions is the action, and the thing they try to achieve is beautiful patterns of motion with certain kinds of rhythm and elegance, and/or/typically the perception of such in an observer.