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Episode 11: The Turing Principle and Artificial General Intelligence

The Theory of Anything

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Penrose's Argument That You Can't Build an AGI Assumes That Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong

Penrose is effectively admitting that Deutscher's analysis rejects quantum mechanics as a possible way around the Turing principle okay and Penrose in his book this is one of the things that he really gets at. As it turns out if you can discover a physical phenomenon and it's still mathematical then you can go build a computer out of thatphysical phenomenon. Yes, they violate the church-turn thesis in a certain form but it'll just make a new church-turnsis one that's more powerful right interesting?

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