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#-1 - AGI (with David Deutsch)

Reason Is Fun

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How AIs Can't Induce Theories of the Big Bang

The word neutrino began as a joke in the mid-20th century. AIs can't create explanations, but they can move around parameters. If you said imagine some new theory about the Sun, I think it would be able to say things like, well, maybe the Sun is twice as big as we think it is. It might say things which are already explanations of something and which it's drawn into that area.

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