Josh, IF we remove the empiricism bias in "future sensory histories" (think Kepler and the approach he took to discover gravity, such as: what can explain observed patterns, knowing our mind is always BLINDED by the senses (similar to zen teachings), he had to negate the tendency to build a hypothesis that relied on the "shadows of reality" (i.e. observable phenomena limited by our arbitrary senses), and then arrive at the most compact hypothesis that could not be disproved at the time) THEN this seems to be a very powerful roadmap:
Recipe for Intelligence: elegantly compress one's history, then hypothesize all reasonable permutations of past events (include permutations of time scales also), elegantly compress hypotheses until not disprovable The more intelligent a system the smaller the information footprint... pretty zen Tudor On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:41 PM, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would demur. There is a huge overlap in the techniques used in > compression > and those in intelligence. However, the significant difference is that > intelligence, in interacting with the real world, has a motor component > which > allows it to select among possible future sensory histories in a way that > is > not a part of the standard formulation of compression. This leads to > techniques such as experimental science -- the source of 99% of current > human > knowledge. > > Josh > > > On Thursday 29 May 2008 02:27:43 pm, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > --- Tudor Boloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > as a side note, does anyone else feel that intelligence and compression > > > (or less formally the ability to summarize) are identical? > > > > Yes, > > http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/rationale.html<http://cs.fit.edu/%7Emmahoney/compression/rationale.html> > > > > See also Hutter's work on AIXI which proves the equivalence. > > > > -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
