Will_Pearson comments on Complexity and Intelligence - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 November 2008 08:27PM

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Comment author: Will_Pearson 04 November 2008 04:17:02PM 0 points [-]

Let me expand my point. Assume you run your hyper civilisation for 1 googol years, you ask it, "Do the angles in a three straight sided shape add up to 180?"

This can be answered yes or no, depending upon what axiom scheme you adopt, cartesian, hyperbolic or something more obscure. Having a system that has thought of all mathematical truths doesn't get you a Powerful system, unless it knows which apply to solving the problems you ask.