I think I have juuust enough background to follow the broad strokes of this post, but not to quite grok the parts I think Abram was most interested in.
I definitely caused me to think about credit assignment. I actually ended up thinking about it largely through the lens of Moral Mazes (where challenges of credit assignment combine with other forces to create a really bad environment). Re-reading this post, while I don’t quite follow everything, I do successfully get a taste of how credit assignment fits into a bunch of different domains.
For the “myopia/partial-agency” aspects of the post, I’m curious how Abram’s thinking has changed. This post AFAICT was a sort of “rant”. A year after the fact, did the ideas here feel like they panned out?
It does seem like someone should someday write a post about credit assignment that’s a bit more general.
I think I have juuust enough background to follow the broad strokes of this post, but not to quite grok the parts I think Abram was most interested in.
I definitely caused me to think about credit assignment. I actually ended up thinking about it largely through the lens of Moral Mazes (where challenges of credit assignment combine with other forces to create a really bad environment). Re-reading this post, while I don’t quite follow everything, I do successfully get a taste of how credit assignment fits into a bunch of different domains.
For the “myopia/partial-agency” aspects of the post, I’m curious how Abram’s thinking has changed. This post AFAICT was a sort of “rant”. A year after the fact, did the ideas here feel like they panned out?
It does seem like someone should someday write a post about credit assignment that’s a bit more general.