In popular AGI takeoff scenarios, AGIs end up doing something "unnatural" where the complexity of the goal is completely orthogonal to their ability to fulfill that goal. I'm looking for a scenario in which an AGI's objective function is "very unnatural". Not maximizing paperclips, building companies, or performing content recommendation,...
(casual but not informal, prerequisites are trigonometry, vectors, and complex numbers, subject as digested by a non-expert in an unrelated field of science) Some background How I got interested in geometric algebra One evening I stayed after class to speak with my mechanics professor. He showed me a formulation of...
In popular AGI takeoff scenarios, AGIs end up doing something "unnatural" where the complexity of the goal is completely orthogonal to their ability to fulfill that goal. I'm looking for a scenario in which an AGI's objective function is "very unnatural". Not maximizing paperclips, building companies, or performing content recommendation, but something distinctly un-human. Thank you!
Thank you for your insightful comment. The concept of a screw is new to me, so I'll have good look at the article you shared and I will try to think carefully about how physical units relate to types, as well as what constitutes true geometric meaning.
(casual but not informal, prerequisites are trigonometry, vectors, and complex numbers, subject as digested by a non-expert in an unrelated field of science)
One evening I stayed after class to speak with my mechanics professor. He showed me a formulation of Maxwell's equations that looked like
"Wait, what? Aren't there supposed to be four equations?" is a question I should have asked, had I known what a Maxwell was. A year later I had forgotten the exchange, but I happened to come across a swift introduction to geometric algebra on youtube. A comically dramatic flashback ensued and after a brief email correspondence, I ended up with Alan... (read 1767 more words →)
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I relate very much to your old roommate who commented on your studying Go and attributing it to your intelligence. While I have always imagined myself living in a small wooden cottage with plenty of time to pursue my interests, I find it very difficult to evaluate a freedom/success trade-off while still in university. Even though I could make the case that I will most likely live more-than-comfortably as a data-scientist no matter how well I perform at the next examination, I still can't shake the feeling that I should be pushing myself to the limit. I feel as if the "fog-of-war" for determining future freedom is too thick, but I realize... (read more)
I find the remark about the exponential increase in scope inducing a linear increase in willingness-to-pay perhaps being due to the number of zeroes quite amusing, and it leads me to speculate how a different base numbering system would change the willingness-to-pay.
I predict that given identical proficiency in any base b numbering system, a base-2 numbering system would decrease willingness-to-pay for an identical exponential increase in scope, and a base-16 numbering system would increase it, as a result of the shorter length representations!
I immediately and conclusively conclude that if we were to do away with our silly digits and embrace hexadecimality then the average human would be willing to part with x1.6 more units of purchasing power.
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