Do you think this is a good argument for multi-scale modularity in biology?
I think the multi-scale aspect is mostly orthogonal to this argument, but yeah the argument could be applied at multiple scales.
Also thoughts on multi-agent models of mind with this model in the background? Finally any thoughts on applying this to whether we will have a group of AI systems doing RSI or a singular one?
Typically, the load-bearing aspect of multi-agent models is that the multiple agents have different utility functions. This argument is compatible with multiple utility functions in principle, but that’s not really what it’s about; it would apply arguably-more-cleanly in systems with just one optimization objective (but multiple subgoals, e.g. multiple resources like apples and bananas).
I guess there also has to be the aspect of trade already present in the system?
Right so I was trying to make sense of this no trade thing because I thought it would make it so that the individual subcomponents would die out if they didn’t have access to trade but that isn’t the case if they’re subordinated to the larger system. Also similar to the multi-agent thing it’s not about multi-scale modularity but rather optimisation within a specific optimisation system or whatever you would like to call it. (random quick picture):
I think the multi-scale aspect is mostly orthogonal to this argument, but yeah the argument could be applied at multiple scales.
Typically, the load-bearing aspect of multi-agent models is that the multiple agents have different utility functions. This argument is compatible with multiple utility functions in principle, but that’s not really what it’s about; it would apply arguably-more-cleanly in systems with just one optimization objective (but multiple subgoals, e.g. multiple resources like apples and bananas).
Nope.
(The other questions I don’t yet have much to say about.)
Right so I was trying to make sense of this no trade thing because I thought it would make it so that the individual subcomponents would die out if they didn’t have access to trade but that isn’t the case if they’re subordinated to the larger system. Also similar to the multi-agent thing it’s not about multi-scale modularity but rather optimisation within a specific optimisation system or whatever you would like to call it. (random quick picture):