Brilliant essay by @DavidDeutschOxf on philosophical deficiency of the discussion of AGI and significance of creativity.https://aeon.co/essays/how-close-are-we-to-creating-artificial-intelligence …
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Replying to @Plinz @DavidDeutschOxf
It was this article that led me to David Deutsch's book "The Beginning of Infinity". If you ever encounter one you can jump straight to Chapter 6 & 7 which are kind of continuation of the article. Here are the summaries:pic.twitter.com/jlxTgxth50
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Replying to @joekina @DavidDeutschOxf
"Because error correction is essential in processes of potentially unlimited length, the jump to universality only ever happens in digital systems"—David Deutsch
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I think this conclusion is non-obvious, but it might explain why even an ontological hypercomputationalist can converge on weak digital computationalism.
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