Ultimately, says Holland, the answer has to be "no one." Because if there is a programmer lurking in the background—"the ghost in the machine"—then you haven't really explained anything. You've only pushed the mystery off someplace else. But fortunately, he says, there is an alternative: feedback from the environment. This was Darwin's great insight, that an agent can improve its internal models without any paranormal guidance whatsoever. It simply has to try the models out, see how well their predictions work in the real world, and—if it survives the experience—adjust the models to do better
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The definitive failure of white progressivism is denying feedback if it’s source is from a marginalized population.
