Canalization in human learning agents

1 Incoming

• The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander about Carhart-Harris et al. (2023)
• Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality. TODO: raid for refs, and then talk about this in the context of interpersonal dynamics. NB I think this phenomenon is interesting but I wish he did not use sloppy Bayesian terminology in this case; it sounds like he is talking about an excessively tight prior, but the dynamics of this case diverge in substantive ways from a direct Bayesian update with an excessively tight prior. One would need some more complicated structure to explain the observation, such as a hierarchical model incorporating observation reliability, or an action-observation loop.
• What is Love? Neural Annealing in the Presence of an Intentional Object | Qualia Computing
• Motivated Reasoning As Mis-applied Reinforcement Learning
• Jiminy Cricket Must Die
• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Emotional reactions as legacy code
• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Your emotions are valid but probably wrong
• The Replacing Guilt series

See also the problem of growing up.

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