You forgot the newest and the simplest things too ;) Lots of people focus on all sorts of things, many are between the atomic and galactic size, such as HDDs and rooftops. Lol.
...It is important we focus on the farthest questions, the simplest, the newest, the most important, and even seemingly unrelated problems. But what does farthest mean? What does newest mean? Why bother if they are unrelated to AGI? That's correct, we want the farthest and newest and oldest questions only if they are about AGI. Many are important, some more priority than others. Simpleness can mean quick to answer and higher priority. Newest/ oldest/ farthest simply means to give these questions a quick check if they are important to answer, they may not be at all, and as for farthest - this can allow you to weigh in on if your theory answers all sorts of observations, can allow you to learn from related but diverse questions. So in short summary recap: Physics leans towards the most important questions on its own. It will give fast checks to old/ new/ far/ simple/ unrelated questions. The brain will usually (not for some ;) ) try to learn as much as can about related/unrelated knowledge as quick as can, related more so. So old/ new doesn't mean much, they are only checked if are fast to solve and/or related. Partially unrelated learning is very helpful. So, the brain looks for 'new yummy streams' of related and somewhat related info that is fast to answer or verify true. Now that I have weaved on a roll here in my attentional memory I can say that new/ old/ far as said above was really just new info fed in and the brain always wants new related+somewhat unrelated info that is fast to answer/ verify, hence increasing the knowledgebase learning up high faster. Of course we want to answer how to build AGI, it's hard, the brains stay locked on the hard problem, but they can get they in polynominal time by stepping the right directions down the butterfly tree effect like AlphaZero using self-play learning on advanced GPUs made by Nividea. So this means the brain wants to tackle the hard, evolution-installed goals of self preservation to death de part, and it takes baby steps as fast as can. Usually many want just a house and a lover, it's not hard to make a life, it's hard to advance evolution though. But these are the smarter ones, they are seeking full preservation, and its hard. And the brain allows you to get there fast using baby steps, even though it is one of the hardest problems. I say one of because AGI is simpler than a global ASI hive or omega structure nebula. We tackle AGI because it is the direct easiest step to become immortal near instantly. But its hard. But its the best weighed in route. So the brain is taking the best fastest route to get what, it wants. And in that process, it is taking sub steps that are fast to learn or build in R&D, to get to the AGI goal. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tb261469785facfd2-M804ad41c3f1c32c3e87e8775 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
