--- On Sat, 12/27/08, John G. Rose <johnr...@polyplexic.com> wrote: > > > How does consciousness fit into your compression > > > intelligence modeling? > > > > It doesn't. Why is consciousness important? > > > > I was just prodding you on this. Many people on this list talk about the > requirements of consciousness for AGI and I was imagining some sort of > consciousness in one of your command line compressors :) > I've yet to grasp > the relationship between intelligence and consciousness though lately I > think consciousness may be more of an evolutionary social thing. Home grown > digital intelligence, since it is a loner, may not require "much" > consciousness IMO..
What we commonly call consciousness is a large collection of features that distinguish living human brains from dead human brains: ability to think, communicate, perceive, make decisions, learn, move, talk, see, etc. We only attach significance to it because we evolved, like all animals, to fear a large set of things that can kill us. > > > Max compression implies hacks, kludges and a > large decompressor. > > > > As I discovered with the large text benchmark. > > > > Yep and the behavior of the metrics near max theoretical > compression is erratic I think? It shouldn't be. There is a well defined (but possibly not computable) limit for each of the well defined universal Turing machines that the benchmark accepts (x86, C, C++, etc). I was hoping to discover an elegant theory for AI. It didn't quite work that way. It seems to be a kind of genetic algorithm: make random changes to the code and keep the ones that improve compression. -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com ------------------------------------------- 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=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
