On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 10:40 AM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... I’ve spent time thinking about how to create a truth machine. > Essentially a system that seeks truth and unbiasedly reports it unlike the > fake fact checkers. Perhaps someone here has heard of such a thing… > That was my motive for suggesting a text compression prize back in 2005 <https://web.archive.org/web/20080321145324/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/cprize.html> . I'd had the idea of a "truth speaker" for several years before that, but it hadn't crystalized in my mind as a lossless compression competition until I came up with the idea of what I called "The C-Prize" and Matt Mahoney referred me to Marcus Hutter's work. I'd had a history of proposing various *objective criterion *prizes that got some attention if not funding: https://web.archive.org/web/20041231194109/http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39865,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050115130425/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6383323/#041105a https://web.archive.org/web/20060221191638/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/BussardsLetter.html I emphasize "objective criterion" because, as I've often stated over the DECADES now: The more judging discretion, the more likely the positions of "judge" will be occupied by the wrong kind of people which will, in turn, drive away serious competitors. This is something that isn't exactly "lost" on the various foundations that offer up "prizes" or "challenges", so much as runs counter to their hidden purpose: Social status for the endowing individuals and their friends. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tabec1b959b565c28-Mfa6e456846b1177ca1b13526 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
