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Yes, but.... The greatest failure of AI discourse has probably been the failure to distinguish clearly between Turing completeness and universal function approximation on the one hand, and intelligence on the other. Minecraft though...
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Humans are general intelligences in the same sense that Minecraft is Turing-complete.
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In the UC model, it is known that random inputs from outside the boundary are required for open-ended evolution, which neatly ties interior and boundary intelligence together in a way that doesn’t garble mental models. In UC/Minecraft type metaphors this is just mutation.
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UTMs in the infinite tape sense are more legible from a programming pov, but less useful from a thinking-about-AI pov. In a UC sense, intelligence is embodied not by the universal “containing” metaphor but the creatures that evolve within it. Down specific but open-ended paths.
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Humans are good at some things (opposable-thumb use, jokes) bad at others (inverting large matrices, computing large primes) and effectively unable to do some things at all due to limited lifespan*speed. These limits are more than a “finite tape” constraint on intelligence.
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