Comment by MAV (MahaultA) on Properties of current AIs and some predictions of the evolution of AI from the perspective of scale-free theories of agency and regulative development · 2023-06-02T15:14:23.882Z · LW · GW

You might enjoy this preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/6afs3 

Comment by MAV (MahaultA) on Properties of current AIs and some predictions of the evolution of AI from the perspective of scale-free theories of agency and regulative development · 2023-01-04T21:12:13.526Z · LW · GW

If you break down your system into larger sub-pieces (with bigger boundaries), you coarse-grain the scale of analysis. Larger boundaries generally mean longer timescales, at the scale of which shorter timescale changes mostly act as noise. I find this paper helpful:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2017.0792