Evolution gave us our utility function. Natural selection gave it to us
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 at 18:45, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Where does the utility function come from? Does it come from another > function or not? Where does that function come from? > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Pieter Steenekamp > *Sent:* Friday, April 2, 2021 9:41 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Free Will in the Atlantic > > > > Yes, and? > Self-supervised deep learning self-learns how to optimize a > utility function. Just a bag of silica. > The fact that I learn how to behave to keep out of jail says exactly > nothing about free will. > > > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 at 18:33, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, law enforcement is a like a chemical reaction with more errors -- > sometimes the bag of meat with a badge throws the wrong bag of meat in a > box, and sometimes the bag of meat who ended the other bag of meat gets > away from the bag of meat with a badge. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? > Sent: Friday, April 2, 2021 9:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Free Will in the Atlantic > > Ha! By "quaint", you're implying something *akin* to free will. If you > truly disbelieved your own agency, you'd see tossing a murderer into prison > is no more or less quaint than a chemical reaction or supernova. > > On 4/2/21 9:26 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Another reactive high-order function. Quaint, really. > > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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