AGI & The Blind Watchmaker

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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

Godel, Escher, Bach & Hofstadter's focus on self-reference vs. David Deutschs focus on universalityComparing knowledge about what to do vs. what is true, and whether you should ever give adviceWhy the Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins is a good guide to AGI researchFollow me  on Twitter! @dela3499Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, and more: https://carlos.buzzsprout.com/share