timtyler comments on Anthropomorphic AI and Sandboxed Virtual Universes - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: jacob_cannell 03 September 2010 07:02PM

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Comment author: timtyler 05 September 2010 01:45:09AM *  1 point [-]

But there is much more to intelligence than just that one simple principle.

Reference? For counter-reference, see:

http://www.hutter1.net/ai/uaibook.htm#oneline

That looks a lot like the intellectual equivalent of "lift" to me.

An implementation may not be that simple - but then aeroplanes are not simple either.

The point was not that engineered artefacts are simple, but that they are only rarely the result of reverse engineering biological entities.

Comment author: jacob_cannell 05 September 2010 10:14:06PM 0 points [-]

I'll take your point and I should have said "there is much more to practical intelligence" than just one simple principle - because yes at the limits I agree that universal intelligence does have a compact description.

AIXI is related to finding a universal TOE - a simple theory of physics, but that doesn't mean it is actually computationally tractable. Creating a practical, efficient simulation involves a large series of principles.