Some parts of the universe are more amenable to abstraction than others—inside of a storm, the scope of it may be difficult to determine. From space, it may be trivial, up to a point. (Clarity from distance.)
Mostly, interconnection is limited by empty space everywhere.
Noisy intermediates Z
The image this is a caption for isn’t showing up.
f(X), not all of X
The low level details may be important as a means to an end.
“an agent’s accessible action space ‘far away’ from now (i.e. far in the future) depends mainly on what resources it acquires, and is otherwise mostly independent of specific choices made right now”
Only given said resources, which is (presumably) the focus of said choices.
In short: modularity of the organism evolves to match modularity of the environment.
It seems this is more likely a result of how evolution works, i.e. modularity is good for refactoring.
The low level details may be important as a means to an end.
The end in question being f(X), specifically. The agent will be indifferent between any X-values with the same f(X) - or, to put it differently, f(X) mediates the impact of X on the agent’s goals.
Similarly with the resources thing—the impact of current choices on far-future action space is mediated by resource quantities.
Some parts of the universe are more amenable to abstraction than others—inside of a storm, the scope of it may be difficult to determine. From space, it may be trivial, up to a point. (Clarity from distance.)
Mostly, interconnection is limited by empty space everywhere.
The image this is a caption for isn’t showing up.
The low level details may be important as a means to an end.
Only given said resources, which is (presumably) the focus of said choices.
It seems this is more likely a result of how evolution works, i.e. modularity is good for refactoring.
The end in question being f(X), specifically. The agent will be indifferent between any X-values with the same f(X) - or, to put it differently, f(X) mediates the impact of X on the agent’s goals.
Similarly with the resources thing—the impact of current choices on far-future action space is mediated by resource quantities.
Thanks, this should be fixed now.