A strong correlation between a relatively inscrutable event and a reliably observable event is very useful because the observable event can be used as an observation objective that can stand for the inscrutable event. However, it is an unlikely pairing. It is more likely that we will find that an observable event is only weakly correlated with the more inscrutable event. However, by using multiple 'vantages' you might find many different observable events which can be used as observation objectives to indicate that a more inscrutable event has occurred. By finding different observation objectives which can combine to enhance the weak correlations of the individual observation objectives, an AGI program would be more likely to be capable of inferring that the inscrutable event has occurred. We also need to be able to find observation objectives that can be combined to help distinguish between more elusive events which might both be associated with some particular group of observation events.
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