On Sunday, September 06, 2026, at 9:38 AM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > The reason most of us are not drug addicts is because rational goal seeking > agents in the AIXI model are not computable. Instead of searching for actions > that maximize future reward, we evolved the approximation of repeating > actions that were rewarded in the past. You don't use drugs only because you > haven't tried them yet.
Careful here most people are addicted to some big pharma drug that makes them feel better since they think that it’s helping them. That doesn’t include all the non big-pharma alternatives people take. Drug-free is in the minority now. The most overwhelming popular drug when I worked in that industry years ago was Viagra. Not sure if that's considered mind altering though unless there is a brain down too there which some people say there is :) ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T906c878e4ba411be-M216312bde821ee50770e0b7b Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
