On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... > 3. Ben's AGI will never be built for the same reason my 2008 distributed, > open source, and public data AGI proposal ( > https://mattmahoney.net/agi2.html ) will never be built. > 10^9 seems well supported by your website's essays, but not 10^17 or 10^13. Those last two orders of magnitude are highly suspect given that only in the last year have figures like Illya (among The Great and The Good) started taking parameter compression as seriously as they should have since at least 2006. That's 20 years of wandering in the wilderness devoid of Solomonoff. In actuality, what has really been going on is studious ignorance due to the tens of trillions of dollars at stake in maintaining macrosocial models swimming around in a pool of stagnant information criteria for model selection. The incentives to control "The Narrative" are so great that no one can claim immunity from such conflicts of interest in maintaining sociology in the dark ages of statistical information criteria <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_selection#Criteria>. No one, especially those ensconced in academia where these conflicts of interest are most focused, can think rationally about this. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5b182c3fd14f61e9-Mcdf9a5766ef6dabebb602889 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
