Empowerment
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ClaimEmpowerment is the space of reachable states an agent can access, independent of which states the agent actually visits.
This claim fails if
If empowerment as defined here is shown to be operationally indistinguishable from RL empowerment (channel capacity maximization), the human-specific targeting adds nothing.
What an agent CAN do -- the space of reachable states, independent of which states the agent actually visits.
Nearest academic equivalents
- Empowerment (Klyubin et al. 2005)
- Capability set (Sen 1992)
- Option value
Delta from academic usage
AgentSee usage aligns with Schoeller et al. (2021) but specifies empowerment as the terminal objective, not just a property of the coupled system. Distinguished from RL empowerment (which maximizes an agent's channel capacity over its environment) by targeting human self-governance specifically.