On 8/31/2014 9:27 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> The Kolmogorov complexity of AGI could be relatively low -- maybe it can
be
expressed in 1000 lines of lisp.
That is not a crazy idea because we know for a fact that in the entire human genome
there are only 3 billion base pairs. There are 4 bases so each base can represent 2
bits, there are 8 bits per byte so that comes out to just 750 meg, and that's enough
assembly instructions to make not just a brain and all its wiring but a entire human
baby. So the instructions MUST contain wiring instructions such as "wire a neuron up
this way and then and then repeat that procedure exactly the same way 917 billion
times". And there is a huge amount of redundancy in the human genome, if you used a file
compression program like ZIP on that 750 meg you could easily put the entire thing on
half a CD, not a DVD not a Blu ray just a old fashioned steam powered vanilla CD.
But the baby learns a lot as it grows, incorporating information form its environment. I
think this would need to be counted in the Kolmogorov complexity; even if the initial,
learning program was relatively small.
Brent
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