Modeling Concepts Probabilistically

·LessWrong··

As I come up to speed on John Wentworth and David Lorell’s work on natural abstraction, I’m filling in some of the gaps in their writing. Previously I posted about a Test Suite for Concepts. Today I’m going to talk about why they use a probabilistic frame when reasoning about concept representation in the minds of agents and the kind of funny way they throw around the word “latent."Working With ConceptsSo far, we have this very high-level idea of a “concept” in a “mind.” We want to start to thin...

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