This sequence of mental moves, where one boils talk about “motivations” or “goals” or “trying” down into non-motivational, purely mechanical circuit and feedback control patterns, and then also the reverse sequence of mental moves, where one reassembles motivational abstractions out of primitive operations, is possibly the biggest thing I wish I could get folks to learn. I think this is a pretty central pattern in “shard theory” discussions that feels missing from many other places.
This sequence of mental moves, where one boils talk about “motivations” or “goals” or “trying” down into non-motivational, purely mechanical circuit and feedback control patterns, and then also the reverse sequence of mental moves, where one reassembles motivational abstractions out of primitive operations, is possibly the biggest thing I wish I could get folks to learn. I think this is a pretty central pattern in “shard theory” discussions that feels missing from many other places.