Until recently I agreed with David Deutsch‘s view that we can’t program an AGI until we understand the nature of human intelligence & creativity. But I’m…
Category: Artifical General Intelligence
In episode 38, Karl Popper has a radical theory of ‘dualistic evolution’ where behavior had to evolve first before physical evolutionary changes could be taken…
Popper wrote about the need to discover regularities: It was first in animals and children, but later also in adults, that I observered the immensely…
In a past post, I talked about Chiara Marletto’s “deterministic nightmare.” Interestingly, David Deutsch, in this interview, addresses the same question. He uses the example…
Popper unintentionally took a stance on one of the requirements for being a universal explainer (or General Intelligence). Specifically, he argued that language was a…
This post is a short response to Christofer Lovegren’s podcast episode 28.1: Meaning and Meta-Rationality. Had Christofer invoked Popper’s 3 worlds, he could have discovered…
Karl Popper once said: I do believe in freedom and reason, but I do not think that one can construct a simple, practical and fruitful…
Josh Levent, after listening to our podcast episodes on universal darwinism (part 1, part2), created the following diagram in an attempt to capture the basic…
In Chiara Marletto’s book, The Science of Can and Can’t, she discusses what she calls the “deterministic nightmare” where all your choices are predictable due…
In a past post, I criticized the view that determinism was predictable. Most deterministic algorithms have to be run to find out what the result…