Episode 58: Deutsch's "Creative Blocks": A Decade Later
The Theory of Anything
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The Problem With Programming an AGI
An AGI solves the problem of open-endedness but it's got nothing to do with inputs or outputs. Deutsch has taken that to a radical level and said, therefore you can't actually program an AGI in any way. We don't really know. If I could write an AGI that only played chess by making it just so pleasurable that's all it wants to do, should I? There's still an ethical question there that seems a little bad to me. And it may not be possible.
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