Hi Ben, > > I think discussing ethics in terms of goals leads to confusion. > > As I described in an earlier post at: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@v2.listbox.com/msg00390.html > > > > reasoning must be grounded in learning and goals must be grounded > > in values (i.e., the values used to reinforce behaviors in > > reinforcement learning). > > Bill, I think we differ mainly on semantics here. > > What you call "values" I'm just calling the highest-level goals in the goal > hierarchy... > > A goal in Novamente is a kind of predicate, which is just a function that > assigns a value in [0,1] to each input situation it observes... i.e. it's a > 'valuation' ;-)
Interesting. Are these values used for reinforcing behaviors in a learning system? Or are they used in a continuous-valued reasoning system? Cheers, Bill ---------------------------------------------------------- Bill Hibbard, SSEC, 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 608-263-4427 fax: 608-263-6738 http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
