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It got less than half right, so worse than just guessing. Observation- predicting learned habits and other cognitive-effort preserving strategies your brain us
by ForwardObserver 3y ago
It got less than half right, so worse than just guessing.
Observation- predicting learned habits and other cognitive-effort preserving strategies your brain uses are not a refutation of free will. The whole point of habits, as Marvin Minsky pointed out in Society of Mind, is to save us from having to think through every little decision, i.e. to make ourselves predictable and unburden ourselves from decisions.
So in this instance, performing "randomly" in a low-stakes event is likely to reflexively trigger off a strategy in the brain which avails itself of some emergent pattern which serves the purpose of reducing cognitive effort. Call this test-taker strategy 1, i.e. just stab at the keys "randomly".
Another approach for the test-taker, call it strategy 2, is to expend considerable cognitive effort trying to model the machine's own model of the test taker's emerging behavior by observing the machine's responses, and then out fox it. (HN is great b/c I know everyone followed that). That's what I did, but it took real effort. Pretty soon, I wanted to drop the heavy thing and just go back to strategy 1.
IMHO the underlying assumption, that this is a test of "free will", is just flawed. Most people will enact strategy 1, be predictable and "lose".
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- lupire 3y agoIt's impossible to prove that free will does not exist. I could be losing on purpose. However, what the game does is refute a particular attempt to prove that will does exist.
- NateEag 3y agoI don't see how. I think it's closer to an attempted refutation of a strawman. As one who leans towards belief in free will and also towards compatibilism, and more importantly originates from a culture with a shared belief in free will (conservative Christian evangelicalism), I don't think anyone I've known who believed in it meant "I believe my actions are fundamentally unpredictable." I think they just meant that they genuinely have an ability to choose between the options they perceive, and then to attempt to enact that choice.
- ForwardObserver 3y ago[dead]
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- hospitalJail 3y agoYep I got it about 50%.