On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 1:09 AM Rob Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... I just always believed the goal of compression was wrong. You're really confused. First, you're conflating lossless compression with lossy compression. Lossless compression is simply Occam's Razor. Lossy compression is Confirmation Bias or what I like to call Occam's Chainsaw Massacre. Whenever you see someone dissing Occam's Razor you're always seeing someone dissing Occam's Chainsaw Massacre, not Occam's Razor. Second, it doesn't matter what you do -- you can't escape the fact that buried in your premises is Occam's Razor if what you are doing is natural science. Even Wigner screwed this up so don't feel bad. But just consider this: If you're going to try to model the world you're going to be doing so in the form of arithmetic so that you can calculate predictions based on your model. If you use arithmetic to do calculations you've just unintentionally adopted the assumption of Solomonoff Induction. Until you understand that, you don't understand the *aspect* of "intelligence" that involves *understanding*. So you really are just off in the philosophical weeds. Better get that straight before you try to go further with "intelligence" including, say, deriving the laws of physics so you can construct dynamical systems that exhibit chaos. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T42db51de471cbcb9-Me4a8de90718ea5a5b75563e3 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
