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Essays on behavior-executor vs utility-maximizer

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Jul 4, 2011LW

Behaviorism: Beware Anthropomorphizing Humans

Scott defends behaviorism as a sophisticated methodological approach that avoided using mental phenomena as fundamental explanations, connecting it to reinforcement learning and the idea that minds are behavior-executors rather than utility-maximizers.

8 min read 1,118 words

Jul 4, 2011LW

The Blue-Minimizing Robot

Scott uses a thought experiment about a robot that shoots blue things to argue that we mistakenly interpret simple programmed behaviors as goal-directed utility maximization, when really the robot is just executing code, not minimizing blue.

8 min read 1,108 words

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