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Popper’s Three Worlds and Meaning/Meta-Rationality
Artifical General Intelligence

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…

Prediction vs Determinism
Artifical General Intelligence

Prediction vs Determinism

Posted on June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Dennis Hackethal has a post called “Two Guesses About Creativity” which started out with the following lines: The problem, in a nutshell, is this: creativity…

Computationally Universal Inference Systems as a Model for General Intelligence
Artifical General Intelligence

Computationally Universal Inference Systems as a Model for General Intelligence

Posted on February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 by Ella Hoeppner

Ideas and Implications In his 1990 talk “The Myth of the Standpoint” Karl Popper said: …the correct method of critical discussion is: What are the…

Some Criticisms of the Neo-Darwinian Theory of the Mind
Artifical General Intelligence

Some Criticisms of the Neo-Darwinian Theory of the Mind

Posted on January 20, 2021March 4, 2021 by Ella Hoeppner

Dennis Hackethal has proposed a theory he calls “The Neo-Darwinian Theory of the Mind”, which is intended to be a low-level explanation of how intelligent…

Does AGI Require Replicators?
Artifical General Intelligence

Does AGI Require Replicators?

Posted on August 16, 2020March 4, 2021 by Four Strands

This is a guest post by Kitt Johnson. Definitions Creativity = The process by which people create OUR kind of knowledge – e.g. explanations. AGI…

The Importance of Asking Why
Critical Rationalism

The Importance of Asking Why

Posted on July 6, 2020August 6, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

The Importance of Asking Why — “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect” “The lack of progress in AGI is due…

On Jenga-Playing Dogs and Cats
Artifical General Intelligence

On Jenga-Playing Dogs and Cats

Posted on June 29, 2020July 30, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

This post is a continuation of my posts on Reinforcement Learning. In my previous posts, I talked up Reinforcement Learning as if it was a…

Artifical General Intelligence

The Current State of CTP Theory

Posted on June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 by Ella Hoeppner

This post describes what I call “CTP Theory”, which is my attempt at a theory of AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence. I have written before…


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