The axiomatic requirements of religion introduce a fatal defect into human epistemology that cuts off areas of model space and prevents universal intelligence. When Roger Bacon discovered the bug and released a fix into the world, he irrevocably started the Singularity.
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You know, Joscha, sometimes I admire you for the positivity and optimism you manage to uphold in spite of all your insights.
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I don't think that it is optimistic, it is just true. Once we fix the basic axioms of rationality, the only conceivable reason that we might not find the solution to a solvable problem is lack of compute (i.e. time and memory) to deal with the search space.
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With or without augs? I read it as the latter, and that's a pipe dream.
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Augmentations are layers of optimizations that increase our efficiency of attacking the search space. The first were logical languages, then mechanical calculators, then digital computers, then domain specific theorem provers and heuristic function approximators, then AGI...
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But many of your terms are themselves epistemic conundrums. (Defects, truth, etc.) And so this enabling step you out forth (fix epist, correct all other defects, etc) are loaded as hell.
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No, it is basically all fixed now, despite the prevailing confusion among many individuals. Almost all of the confusion stems from residual epistemological defects.
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Strangely idealistic.
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will this point ever be reached tho? or are we left with just discovering slightly better approximations of learning?
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