AGI with Carlos

The need for diverse criteria of progress and success How neural networks and evolution avoid getting stuck in local optimaTuring completeness, Popper completeness, and other forms of universalityHuman cognitive limitations and the challenge of visualizing high dimensionsIntelligence in chaotic versus patterned universesInitializing a mind: What needs to be built-in from the start?Memory-erasing entities in stories like There Is No Antimemetics Division and Doctor WhoFatal infohazards and the discovery of countermeasuresFollow me on Twitter! @dela3499Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share

We discuss:Process-oriented fields like economics, evolution, and epistemologyLevels of abstraction and explanation vs. interacting domains of thoughtDifferent measures of complexity - of programs, ideas, organisms, and designed objectsThe role of replication in how evolution works and how the mind worksFollow me on Twitter! @dela3499Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share

Dive into the fascinating interplay between evolution and AGI research through Richard Dawkins' insights in The Blind Watchmaker. Explore the complexities of self-reference from Gödel, Escher, Bach, contrasted with David Deutsch's universality focus. Discover why some books, like Deutsch's, resonate differently upon revisiting. The podcast also critiques viewing intelligence solely as optimization and discusses the nuances of knowledge creation in humans versus machines. Unpack the risks of giving advice and the importance of true explanatory knowledge.

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1. Dolphins. Transplant human brains into dolphin bodies. How long before they build printing presses? More generally, what matters more: our hands or our brains?2. Set. Point. Search. Human power depends on three things: having many possibilities, good actual ideas, and the ability to find good ideas.3. The Attention Machine. Accelerating search by focusing on what's relevant.Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share

What makes something an AGI? What requirements should it meet?1. Darwin. It should be able to explore many possibilities, via variation and selection.2. Turing.  It should have the widest set of possibilities and opportunities. It should be able to think anything that is thinkable. Compute anything computable.3. Darwin. Having found a new and good idea or theory, it should be possible to use it to improve how it searches. It should be able to engage in variation and selection in new ways.Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share

In this episode, I discuss:1. Progress. What makes progress possible? What makes it go faster? What makes it go further?2. Four elements of knowledge-creation. Variation, selection, attention, & knowledge.3. The nature of knowledge. What is its role? How does it work?Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share

Howdy! I'm Carlos, and I work on artificial general intelligence. In this episode, I discuss:My main research question: What makes human minds so powerful?Why the Darwinian ideas of variation and selection are central to understanding how minds work.My latest research: How do humans identify and focus on what's relevant?Follow me on Twitter! @dela3499Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share