While I am actually a fan of Occam's Razor as a guiding principle for AGI, I really don't think AGI should base itself on assumptions like "physics is computable"
In fact, this assumption seems to me an egregious *violation* of Occam's Razor!! Occam's Razor says we should make the minimum hypotheses needed. Hypothesizing a computable universe is almost *surely* nowhere near the minimum hypothesis needed to guide the creation of an AGI!!!! -- Ben G On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Thu, 10/30/08, Pei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Even if that is the case, I don't accept it as a reason > > to tolerant this opinion in AGI research. > > The point is not that AGI should model things at the level of atoms. The > point is that we should apply the principle of Occam's Razor to machine > learning and AGI. We already do that in all practical learning algorithms. > For example in NARS, a link between two concepts like (if X then Y) has a > probability and a confidence that depends on the counts of (X,Y) and (X, not > Y). This model is a simplification from a sequence of n events (with > algorithmic complexity 2n) to two small integers (with algorithmic > complexity 2 log n). The reason this often works in practice is Occam's > Razor. That might not be the case if physics were not computable. > > -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -- Robert Heinlein ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
