On 09/10/2013 12:46, Bob Mottram wrote:
From a mid 20th century perspective much of human behavior seems baffling and hopelessly irrational. To produce a human-like cognitive system I think it needs to include more social and narrative elements, such as the maintenance of a social graph (Dunbar, etc) and a language system capable of supporting internal dialogues and imaginative narrative reconstructions - what I call "circumstance based reasoning". Instead of trying to maximize utility probably what people are mostly doing is trying to maximize the consistency or desirability of their autobiographical narrative relative to other known historical or fictional accounts, or simply to live according to some particular principle or aesthetic (both of which also have a historical basis to them). [...]
Utility is often shorthand for "that which is maximised". If you argue that some system isn't maximizing utility, but instead is maximizing some other quantity, X, economists will probably tell you that you should be using the word "utility" to refer to this "X" quantity. -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] Remove lock to reply. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
