First of all, Matt's comments apply more to natural language text than they do even to, say, to image compression. The vast majority of images are, in some sense, related to the physical world and while many would claim physics is just a bunch of incomprehensible tricks to compress experimental data along with the details of the measurement apparatus, most folks who trust their lives to technology derived from physics are, at least implicitly, admitting there may be something to compressed representations beyond a random jumble of tricks. This is otherwise known as "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".
Secondly, epistemology and human psychology are really in their infancy, so their manifestation in natural language theory may leave something to be desired -- particularly if limited to Hutter Prize entries which has received funding amounting to about zero compared to the relevant fields. Finally, all of so-called "data-driven public policy" is based on the presumption that losslessly compressing a wide range of longitudinal social measures results in meaningful insights into social causality regarding salient outcomes. Moreover, the failure of social science to produce public policy that serves the touted salient outcomes is hardly the fault of those of us who have been pushing to discipline the field with lossless compression. Quite the opposite in fact. It is those who claim that there is no point to applying Ockham's Razor to the social sciences who are to blame for the looming bloodshed. On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 8:16 PM <immortal.discover...@gmail.com> wrote: > But the compression prize is meant to make new discoveries, to teach the > others in the public. If no one can find a new technique (that works on > other datasets), nor can explain them to the public, why is the contest > still such a big thing towards AGI?? Is it making any more point? Is it > explaining it to the public? > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T26a5f8008aa0b4f8-Mee3f1a45bd67b055cff88c3f> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T26a5f8008aa0b4f8-Ma87ead2e8f5d2a677993b788 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
