Similarly, one can never completely understand one's own mind, for it would take a bigger mind than one has to do so. This, I believe, is the best argument against the runaway-intelligence scenarios in which sufficiently advanced AIs recursively improve their own code to achieve ever increasing advances in intelligence.
Terren On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:29 PM Evgenii Rudnyi <[email protected]> wrote: > "A certain artist, having escaped from the lunatic asylum in which, > rightly or wrongly, he had be confined, purchased the materials of his > craft and set to work to make a complete picture of the universe." > > ... > > "The interpretation of this parable is sufficiently obvious. The artist > is trying to describe in his picture a creature equipped with all the > knowledge which he himself possesses, symbolizing that knowledge by the > picture which the pictured creature would draw. And it becomes > abundantly evident that the knowledge thus pictured must always be less > the than the knowledge employed in making the picture. In other words, > the mind which any human science can describe can never be an adequate > representation of the mind which can make that science. And the process > of correcting that inadequacy must follow the serial steps of an > infinite regress." > > > https://scienceforartists.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/artist-and-picture-by-j-w-dunne/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/76d1afbe-124a-8afa-d67a-9301e1b426b7%40rudnyi.ru > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAMy3ZA-fpQHWiou%2BxYLzbXn_dS9C0utvFkja5cYGRsHG2uZ_Gg%40mail.gmail.com.
