I agree. I never saw this analogy as being about the specific bear_fat_and_honey snack. Bear fat and honey is just a vivid example to say that even though we want fat, sugar and salt, some elements of the class of foods with fat, sugar and salt are ranked as more appetizing. And it is this preference ranking what the observing aliens could not predict from knowing about preference for fat, sugar and salt.
Makes sense. Only problem is, bear fat + sugar + salt seems qualitatively pretty similar to ice cream. It doesn’t seem like it neglected the qualitative spirit of why ice cream is good, which just adds to the fine parsing needed to get value out of this.
I agree. I never saw this analogy as being about the specific bear_fat_and_honey snack. Bear fat and honey is just a vivid example to say that even though we want fat, sugar and salt, some elements of the class of foods with fat, sugar and salt are ranked as more appetizing. And it is this preference ranking what the observing aliens could not predict from knowing about preference for fat, sugar and salt.
Makes sense. Only problem is, bear fat + sugar + salt seems qualitatively pretty similar to ice cream. It doesn’t seem like it neglected the qualitative spirit of why ice cream is good, which just adds to the fine parsing needed to get value out of this.