I’m not talking about the range. Domain seems possibly right, but not as informative as I’d like. I’m talking about what parts of spacetime it cares about, and saying that it only cares about specific outputs of a specific process. Drexler refers to this as “bounded scope and duration”. Note that this will normally be an implicit utility function, that we infer from our understanding of the system.
“bounded utility function” is definitely not an ideal way of referring to this.
I’m not talking about the range. Domain seems possibly right, but not as informative as I’d like. I’m talking about what parts of spacetime it cares about, and saying that it only cares about specific outputs of a specific process. Drexler refers to this as “bounded scope and duration”. Note that this will normally be an implicit utility function, that we infer from our understanding of the system.
“bounded utility function” is definitely not an ideal way of referring to this.