Active Inference Insights Mahault Albarracin ~ Active Inference Insights 002 ~ Epistemic Communities, Social Scripts, AI
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Dec 7, 2023 
PhD candidate in cognitive computing, Mahault Albarracin, and the host explore epistemic communities, social scripts, and AI. They discuss the formation of echo chambers, confirmation bias, epistemic humility, and changing beliefs. They also explore the concept of social scripts and their relationship with active inference. Additionally, they delve into the limitations of human cognition, the concept of possibility spaces, and the relationship between subjectivity, matter, ontology, and epistemology. They also touch on embodiment and consciousness in AI.
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Epistemic Communities
- Epistemic communities share specific beliefs, leading to similar reality sampling.
- Norms, like 9-to-5 work, tie to ideologies shaping lives and relationships.
Active Inference & Epistemic Communities
- Active inference: minimizing dissolution risk by mapping the world.
- Agents create evidence of their existence, shaping their environment.
Truth and Actionability
- Truth's relevance depends on actionability. Unactionable beliefs have no impact.
- Beliefs become harmful when they influence actions with negative consequences.