Ben, According to this distinction, AIXI and evolution have high intelligence
but low efficient intelligence.
Yes, and in the case of AIXI it is presumably zero given that the resource consumption is infinite. Evolution on the other hand is just efficient enough that when implemented on a crazy enough scale the results can be pretty amazing. If this hypothesis is correct then AIXI and the like don't really tell us
much about what matters, which is the achievement of efficient intelligence in relevant real-world contexts...
That might well be true. I don't want to give the impression that I don't care about the efficiency of intelligence. On any given hardware the most intelligent system will be the one that runs the algorithm with the greatest intelligence efficiency. Thus, if I want to see very intelligent systems then I need to care about how efficient they are. Nevertheless, it is still the end product raw intelligence generated by the system that really excites me, rather than statistics on its internal efficiency. Shane ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
