Now I’m curious which of the examples were incorrect according to you. For me:
Programming languages (though I took it as a joke about python being slow)
Utility function: When someone comes across a rock, one knows that it is not optimizing for an utility function not from its actions but rather from preexisting knowledge about its (lack of) inner mechanics. Swap out the common rock for a rock magically looking exactly like a human standing still. Now, it’s much less obvious from a short observation that it isn’t optimising for an utility function, even though it does the same actions.
The other examples seemed correct to me.
Would it be fair to describe this concept abstractly as follows:
“Two process can theoretically generate exactly the same set of objects, but with different probabilities. Therefore, when presented with a given object, one can use Bayes-theorem to infer which process generated it.”
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