the famous case where a guy lost all his emotions and in many ways things remained fine.
I believe the point of the example was that the guy would take forever to make any decision, even small things like what to pick in a store, wasting hours on trivial stuff (..and when I imagine my lack of patience with friends when they are indecisive sometimes, I suspect his social life might not “remained fine” but that was not mentioned in the interview),, that emotions (like value functions in ML) help to speed up progress even if with unlimited time we might get to the same conclusions
I don’t know anything about the case beyond what you say in your comment; from that my first though is that it would take time for them to get used to do everything with less emotions. If they had been born with that low level of emotions, they would have learned how to function that way already.
I believe the point of the example was that the guy would take forever to make any decision, even small things like what to pick in a store, wasting hours on trivial stuff (..and when I imagine my lack of patience with friends when they are indecisive sometimes, I suspect his social life might not “remained fine” but that was not mentioned in the interview),, that emotions (like value functions in ML) help to speed up progress even if with unlimited time we might get to the same conclusions
I don’t know anything about the case beyond what you say in your comment; from that my first though is that it would take time for them to get used to do everything with less emotions. If they had been born with that low level of emotions, they would have learned how to function that way already.