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Free Will Belief as a consequence of Model-based Reinforcement Learning — mentioned by raindeer2

Sun, 12 May 2024 19:57:47 GMT

Indeed. The problem is that the word "free" has different meanings when talking about free will and freedom in other contexts. What you talk about is value freedom, while ppl denying the existence of free will refer to "physcial" freedom. Few ppl notice the distinction though which makes the debate somewhat strange. https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08435

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Free Will Belief as a consequence of Model-based Reinforcement Learning — mentioned by raindeer2

Sun, 05 May 2024 19:39:40 GMT

You might find this paper interesting. https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08435 The confusion about free will comes from a confusion about what "free" means. The everyday use of the word free has little to do with determinism etc.

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Free Will Belief as a consequence of Model-based Reinforcement Learning — mentioned by raindeer2

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 07:29:54 GMT

"moral responsibility, essential no, it cannot exist again unless supernatural is involved for the same reasons outlined above, there is no "you" making a decision, just a process." This view is based on a misunderstanding of what moral responsibility is. Moral responsibility is essentially credit assignment [1]. It exists as a concept not because it matters whether or not you actually could have done differently before, but rather as a mechanism to teach you to do differently in a similar situation in the future. "You" is just a machine making decisions. When you make a bad decision…

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Wed, 17 Nov 2021 08:19:50 GMT

Free Will Belief as a Consequence of Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

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