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 <use...@rudnyi.ru> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAMy3ZA-fpQHWiou%2BxYLzbXn_dS9C0utvFkja5cYGRsHG2uZ_Gg%40mail.gmail.com.
