To upgrade society, you have to upgrade its members first.
I thought for a while that we are maybe not generally intelligent and now I think we are, once we fix our epistemology. Using pen and paper for storage, we can execute any algorithm and approximate any function that can be approximated by a resource bounded Turing Machine.
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Basically, it seems clear that while our brains are small and short lived, we already implement general recursive function approximation. But we needed to bootstrap the ability to use and propagate formalized knowledge across generations.
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Yes, but there some rather frighteningly large unknowns in mind design space and physics (still). I also think you have to agree we don't have computation quite settled.
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I think we are, but "general intelligence" might not be as clear of a concept as we might want. Even if you try to abstract the hell out of it, having it boil down to computational models and complexity.
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Learning is function approximation. Searching for function approximators is meta learning. One level above that lies optimality theory of search for meta learning. I don't see how any intelligent system needs to go higher from there; it is all just deeper then.
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