Not exactly: there are things that work quite well with these ideas, and others don't. Check out my comments about "empowerment" further above for examples. Th

Not exactly: there are things that work quite well with these ideas, and others don't. Check out my comments about "empowerment" further above for examples. Thus, the authors' proposals are emphatically not vacuous - but they are probably not that new, either, if I have properly understood what they are doing. Disclaimer: I am one of the authors of the empowerment papers.