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Sean Palmer's avatar

Some really great writing in here. Hope there is some future book in the works. It would be a shame to lose in the ether that is the internet.

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Baird Brightman's avatar

I'll see that "intelligence is compression" and raise it with "intelligence is expansion".

Lovely writing, Nicholas. Looking forward to reading more! 👏

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kd's avatar
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Two random thoughts.

There's compression and compression. The other one, that's kind of lurking in the article, while the first one, statistical, has the main stage, is more akin to providing a new perspective, new set of 'principles' you use to condense the meaning. It could be argued that it only exists within the area of subjectivity but I think it can have a claim to objectivity too (could AI come up with General Relativity theory when it didn't exist?).

The other one is that the limited exposure to AI I have had makes me really scared of how much content it can produce in mere seconds. We will be drowning in a deluge of content that no one will be able to process (or enjoy). Productivity ad absurdum. So much for compression.

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Andrew N's avatar

Great article, I think you would enjoy Bernardo Kastrup’s book, Analytical Idealism in a Nutshell that talks about similar themes. Along the lines of the map is not the territory and the map does not produce the territory which is much of the AI premise.

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Rrrrrr's avatar

El ser de la máquina es máquina.

Así, ser máquina alcanza para 'pensar' como máquina.

("Zapatero a tus Zapatos")

Nicholas Carr les canta, les recita, y se las pinta a los ilusos de la inminente 'singularidad'. Todo lo cual es muy importante pues la tarea de la construcción de la AGI sí que hay que emprenderla pronto (ver porqué la urgencia en Stanislaw Sem, Summa Technologiae)

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David A. Westbrook's avatar

Nicely done!

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