This paper is largely why I basically threatened to resign from HP's $500M Internet Chapter 2 project if they made me hire H-1b rather than Tom to solve some fundamental issues I'd been grappling with ever since AT&T/Knight-Ridder put me in charge of architecting their alternative to the Internet back in 1981. I think they let me hire him only because they were aware that, despite my being friendly with the H-1b coworkers, I would probably have sued HP. But then the DotCon bubble popped and all remaining money had to be spent on cramming 5-10 H-1bs per Cupertino apartment -- no money for people like Tom:
https://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7750/slac-pub-7890.pdf PROCESS, SYSTEM, CAUSALITY, AND QUANTUM MECHANICS A Psychoanalysis of Animal Faith Tom Etter 112 Blackburn Avenue Menlo Park, California 94025{2704 and H. Pierre Noyes Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309 On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> > wrote: > ... > > 4. Tiny dictionary encoding using byte pair encoding, replacing the least >> frequent byres with codes for the most frequent byte pairs until there is >> no more size reduction, which takes about 6 passes when the pairing is >> restricted to groups of letters or groups of repeated punctuation symbols >> that are used in the XML, HTML, and Wikipedia markup.... >> I have some ideas for tokenization and for modeling a semantic network >> with an attention mechanism like in a transformer, but that doesn't require >> a GPU to run reasonably fast. But it will be awhile before I have any code >> ready to release. >> > ... > > Yesterday, a dynamical MDL approach to the Re-Pair algorithm emerged from > formalizing Tom Etter's Relation Arithmetic approach to foundations I've > been working on in Lean4, so that I get the philosophy of causality right > from the gitgo. > > A couple of years ago I played around with Re-Pair as an approach to > lossless compression but couldn't figure out a principled approach to > causality using it. Since my goal in life at this point is to demonstrate > discovery of macrosocial dynamics latent in the data by approximating the > Algorithmic Information Criterion for model selection and get a prize > funded to nuke the social pseudosciences before they succeed in nuking > humanity with their "Alignment" theocracy, I had to continue working on the > philosophy of causality itself which is why I revisited Etter's largely > unpublished corpus. > > I didn't even realize it was incorporating a variation of BPE until I > began more carefully examining the structure of the causal graphs. > > Too bad the Desi's thought their H-1b attack on the West was more > important than supporting people like Tom > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop>. > > Around June 18, 1956, the earliest participants (perhaps only Ray >> Solomonoff, maybe with Tom Etter) arrived at the Dartmouth campus in >> Hanover, N.H., to join John McCarthy who already had an apartment there. >> Solomonoff and Minsky stayed at Professors' apartments, but most would stay >> at the Hanover Inn. > > > > > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6cf3be509c7cd2f2-Mdf6fbcd22fe4ff55f05a840b Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
