Yeah, I was not intending to exclude this type of goal directedness from unfolding. I don’t actually know the terminology for the thing I’ve been noticing a lot, but I bet the Buddhists have some specialized words which you’ll be able to inform me of. The ones I use are trying Vs intention, or wanting Vs desire. It’s something like steering by rejecting the realities you don’t like, conditioning on the outcomes you want in a way which makes you unable to look at the alternative clearly.
That’s the kind of goal directedness which blocks unfolding, whereas being accepting of the fact that your preferred outcome might not happen and holding your preferences about the world within your self model’s Markov boundary rather than letting them leak into your world model is totally compatible with unfolding.
I wasn’t differentiating from random drift though, just noticing the failure mode most salient to me which is unfolding blocking trying vibes :)
Yeah, I was not intending to exclude this type of goal directedness from unfolding. I don’t actually know the terminology for the thing I’ve been noticing a lot, but I bet the Buddhists have some specialized words which you’ll be able to inform me of. The ones I use are trying Vs intention, or wanting Vs desire. It’s something like steering by rejecting the realities you don’t like, conditioning on the outcomes you want in a way which makes you unable to look at the alternative clearly.
That’s the kind of goal directedness which blocks unfolding, whereas being accepting of the fact that your preferred outcome might not happen and holding your preferences about the world within your self model’s Markov boundary rather than letting them leak into your world model is totally compatible with unfolding.
I wasn’t differentiating from random drift though, just noticing the failure mode most salient to me which is unfolding blocking trying vibes :)