Two scientists may look at the same data and draw different conclusions. Faced with a problem to solve they may see different solutions as the obvious way to go. The cause of this is scientific taste: one's crystalized collection of priors about how the slice of nature of interest works. I like to think of taste as tinted glasses: you can look at a phenomenon through different lenses and notice different things with each. These views are not to be thought of as right or wrong in isolation. Ra...| Nintil
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The term "agency" is popular these days. Though the term gets many definitions depending on who you ask, I'll define someone agentic as someone that both: Is aware of what's possible, beyond the obvious next step Gets what they want, if that's different from what their environment wants And I'll define an action as agentic if it's vastly more predictable from knowing the individual than from knowing the environment in which the individual is immersed. It's possible to have one, both, or neith...| Nintil