[FRIAM] New ways of understanding the world

[Marcus Daniels]

Ok, so like an android in the spaceship that is 150 years into a 200 year mission, it reflects back on its experiments with the humans that were alive in the first 100 years of its mission.   The dataset sealed up after the last human died.  

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Right. Except that these little machines are not merely learning a static string. They're *writing* to the string at the same time they're reading it.

On 12/1/20 10:12 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Map Nick's list of numbers to a spatiotemporal snapshot of the physical world.  The dog and the human have both learned how to learn about it.  Whether it took 1 year, 8000 years, or 2.7 billion years sort of doesn’t matter in the argument except that the new AI needs enough time to perform experiments to learn the consequences and meaning of different patterns of numbers.   If the list of numbers describes every possible action that the AI could take and how that particular path would be recorded, then any given experiment could in principle be encapsulated in a single set of numbers; it is just a matter of what cells in the hyperspace the AI decides to look at.

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