On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 9:02 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of the many statistical models listed was MDL, minimum description > length. Proving that no shorter description exists is not computable. The > long list of other models are computable approximations of MDL. Some work > better than others, depending on the data. > Real world measurements can, of course, be compressed by statistical methods but interventions that don't require programming languages presenting a fiction of Turing completeness only work for situations that aren't dynamic. The Supersonic Tsunami of AGI will put a lot more babies at risk than the next Baby Hitler or the next Baby Rissannen if those with the data and computation keep excusing themselves with arguments like the one you just made. See where this conversation with Anthropic ended up: https://claude.ai/share/8ad79e30-9cc6-4d0a-9082-bf800bb2045e ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5b182c3fd14f61e9-M1fb9e96333bd749ec580350b Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
