
David Deutsch on The Fun Criterion, Objective Beauty & Artificial Intelligence
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Over Imitation in Human Children
Recently, I've come across a study that talks about over imitation in human kids. So, the children who observe an adult manipulating an unfamiliar object show a strong tendency to encode all of the adult's purposeful actions as causally meaningful. And it's obvious and natural that this is a side effect of copying memes creatively instead of copying them by behavior parsing. Over copying is simply one kind of error.
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