Hey, some thoughts in case helpful. I was exploring a little bit into the ‘agent structure’ sort of questions and the Good/Gooder regulator landscape.
You can take GR a bit further by looking at a temporally indexed MDP-like causal diagram and applying various bookkeeping transformations. Search ‘combine nodes’ in John’s post on Bayes net algebra and ‘uncombine’ in my comment on the same.
Then you can see a ‘good regulator motif’ across many timesteps and timescales and draw some richer conclusions.
Hey, some thoughts in case helpful. I was exploring a little bit into the ‘agent structure’ sort of questions and the Good/Gooder regulator landscape.
You can take GR a bit further by looking at a temporally indexed MDP-like causal diagram and applying various bookkeeping transformations. Search ‘combine nodes’ in John’s post on Bayes net algebra and ‘uncombine’ in my comment on the same.
Then you can see a ‘good regulator motif’ across many timesteps and timescales and draw some richer conclusions.
Here’s a comment where I hastily sketch a version of this.
Wasn’t planning to expand on any of those things, but if you think it’d be especially helpful let me know.