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Language as General Intelligence
Artifical General Intelligence

Language as General Intelligence

Posted on June 10, 2022June 9, 2022 by Dan Gish

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…

Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper’s Epistemology (part 2)
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Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper’s Epistemology (part 2)

Posted on January 4, 2022February 15, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

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…

AGI and The Need to Find Regularities
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AGI and The Need to Find Regularities

Posted on November 9, 2021August 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Deutsch’s Answer to the Deterministic Nightmare
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Deutsch’s Answer to the Deterministic Nightmare

Posted on September 16, 2021September 5, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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’s Requirements to be a Universal Explainer (Sort Of)
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Popper’s Requirements to be a Universal Explainer (Sort Of)

Posted on September 14, 2021August 4, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Popper’s Three Worlds and Meaning/Meta-Rationality
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Popper’s Three Worlds and Meaning/Meta-Rationality

Posted on September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Why “Free Will” Might Not Be a Useful Term
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Why “Free Will” Might Not Be a Useful Term

Posted on August 31, 2021September 3, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

A Diagram of Universal Darwinism
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A Diagram of Universal Darwinism

Posted on August 3, 2021August 1, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

Is it Possible to Escape the Deterministic Nightmare?
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Is it Possible to Escape the Deterministic Nightmare?

Posted on July 20, 2021September 5, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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 What Sense is Knowledge Creation Unpredictable?
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In What Sense is Knowledge Creation Unpredictable?

Posted on June 22, 2021June 21, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

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…

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