Comment by tekkk
18 hours ago
Never thought of that. Probably a bit too generous given that it could be just as well waste of time and resources, nevermind the bias of the voodoo doctor. Most of it was just weirdly provided therapy I suppose to relieve stress.
But it is funny that humans put a great lot of weight on social contracts and being given explicit orders, maybe even publicly, must help pursuing action instead of rumination. Especially in a world where things seemed to happen randomly anyway.
"Evolution doesn't optimize for correctness, it optimizes for minimum error cost."
It's a subtle but important distinction.
That is such a good line. Another important note is the time horizon of that error function is often quite short.