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Why do we think most AIs unintentionally created by humans would create a worse world, when the human mind was designed by random mutations and natural selection, and created a better world?

As far as AI designers go, evolution has to be one of the worst. It randomly changes the genetic code, and then selects on the criterion of ingroup reproductive fitness - in other words, how well a being can reproduce and stay alive - it says nothing about the goals...

May 13, 20173

Does Kolmogorov complexity imply a bound on self-improving AI?

The Kolmogorov complexity ("K") of a string ("S") specifies the size of the smallest Turing machine that can output that string. If a Turing machine (equivalently, by the Church-Turing thesis, any AI) has size smaller than K, it can rewrite its code as much as it wants to, it won't...

Feb 14, 20167

Is my brain a utility minimizer? Or, the mechanics of labeling things as "work" vs. "fun"

I recently encountered something that is, in my opinion, one of the most absurd failure modes of the human brain. I first encountered this after introspection on useful things that I enjoy doing, such as programming and writing. I noticed that my enjoyment of the activity doesn't seem to help...

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Why do we think most AIs unintentionally created by humans would create a worse world, when the human mind was designed by random mutations and natural selection, and created a better world?

Does Kolmogorov complexity imply a bound on self-improving AI?

Is my brain a utility minimizer? Or, the mechanics of labeling things as "work" vs. "fun"

Why do we think most AIs unintentionally created by humans would create a worse world, when the human mind was designed by random mutations and natural selection, and created a better world?

Does Kolmogorov complexity imply a bound on self-improving AI?

Is my brain a utility minimizer? Or, the mechanics of labeling things as "work" vs. "fun"