RE: Open to explore possibility
February 17, 2021 at 8:57 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2021 at 8:58 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(February 17, 2021 at 4:57 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Fitness is a specific type of instrumental utility.
Sure; but you argued that true propositions may have greater instrumental utility (fitness) than false ones. However, being optimized for fitness often involves (or requires) the act of hiding truths. Donald Hoffman (I'll look up the paper when I get home) has simulation experiments in which "organisms" optimized for fitness in the world always outcompete those optimized for truths in the world.