--- Gary Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Too complicate things further. > > A small percentage of humans perceive pain as pleasure > and prefer it at least in a sexual context or else > fetishes like sadomachism would not exist. > > And they do in fact experience pain as a greater pleasure.
More properly, they have associated positive reinforcement with sensory experience that most people find painful. It is like when I am running a race and willing to endure pain to pass my competitors. Any good optimization process will trade off short and long term utility. If an agent is rewarded for output y given input x, it must still experiment with output -y to see if it results in greater reward. Evolution rewards smart optimization processes. It explains why people climb mountains, create paintings, and build rockets. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=66463093-36cd0a
