Dennis Gorelik wrote:

Deering,

I strongly disagree.
Humans have preprogrammed super-goals.
Humans don't update ability to update their super-goals.
And humans are intelligent creatures, aren't they?



In what sense do human have pre-programmed super-goals? It seems to me that our evolved "programming" is about as far from a super-goal as can be conceived, responding in ways that provided superior fitness in the ancestral environment but certainly not forward-looking.

Moreover: system which can easily redefine its super-goals is very
unstable.


I can't see how this concept of a *system* modifying its supergoals even makes sense. In order to do so in any workable way appears to require use of resources (knowledge) greater than that within the *system*. Indeed, the concept of a supergoal doesn't make sense, except from a point of view at a higher level of context than the system itself.

At the same time intelligent system has to be able to define its own
sub-goals (not super-goals). These sub-goals are set based on
environment and super-goals.



True intelligence must be aware of the widest possible context
and derive super-goals based on direct observation of that
context, and then generate subgoals for subcontexts. Anything with
preprogrammed goals is limited intelligence.





"True" intelligence exists at various levels of capability in terms of a system modeling its environment and acting according to that model. All intelligence is limited in its ability to sense, model, and predict.

- Jef
http://www.jefallbright.net

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