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The language of reward mechanism can be translated to language of emotions. Emotions is something humans experience and understand on innate level, they are qua
by killerstorm 1y ago
The language of reward mechanism can be translated to language of emotions. Emotions is something humans experience and understand on innate level, they are qualia. If a reward structure is translated to our language we can get a better intuitive understanding.
E.g. a direct negative reward associated with undesired states is often called "pain". E.g. if you want robot to avoid bumping into walls you give it a "pain" feedback and then it would learn to avoid walls. That's exactly how it works for humans, animals, etc. Obviously robot does not literally experience "pain" as an emotion, it's just a reward structure.
- littlestymaar 1y agoWhat you've written doesn't change anything to the fact that there's a contradiction in the author's writing. And as ithkuil said in another comment[1] it's not surprising at all that such a contradiction would occur in a work of fiction written by a human, because we are first an foremost emotional beings and we cannot really imagine how would a society of purely rational beings would be. I don't really understand why you want to pretend that there's no inconsistency in a piece of fiction, by invoking pseudo-technical arguments that are entirely foreign to the said piece of fiction. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43992932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43992932
- killerstorm 1y agoOne way to interact with a piece of fiction is to find a way to connect it to things you know or thought of.
- littlestymaar 1y agoHow is that relevant to the discussion?
- killerstorm 1y agoAsk ChatGPT. Seriously
- littlestymaar 1y agoOh, that sentence explains a lot about this discussion…