Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Ep. 27 - Problem Formulation

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Jul 19, 2019
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Intelligence as Problem Solving

  • Intelligence is the capacity to solve a wide variety of problems.
  • Problem-solving involves transforming an initial state into a goal state by applying operations while following path constraints.
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Combinatorial Explosion

  • Analyzing problem spaces reveals combinatorial explosion: the vast number of possible pathways to a solution.
  • This makes it impossible to search the entire problem space for many problems.
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Relevance Realization

  • Humans excel at relevance realization, zeroing in on relevant information within a problem space.
  • This ability allows us to avoid combinatorial explosion by searching only a small subsection of the space.
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