At some point essentially everything of value is going to be abstract computation, and anything outside of that will be either noise or fully understood, the physical substrate. It’s not clear how that abstract computation should be structured, but the experience from engineering of the physical systems or communication technologies, the classical ways of understanding the physical world, isn’t obviously that relevant for agent foundations.
Even if all value is in computations (eg. everyone lives inside simulations), wouldn’t you have the same problems, just one level down? The physical world may be a type of computation and the computations may resemble the physical world.
At some point essentially everything of value is going to be abstract computation, and anything outside of that will be either noise or fully understood, the physical substrate. It’s not clear how that abstract computation should be structured, but the experience from engineering of the physical systems or communication technologies, the classical ways of understanding the physical world, isn’t obviously that relevant for agent foundations.
Even if all value is in computations (eg. everyone lives inside simulations), wouldn’t you have the same problems, just one level down? The physical world may be a type of computation and the computations may resemble the physical world.