I knew it... it is just Core Wars all the way down!
> Right. Except that these little machines are not merely learning a static 
> string. They're *writing* to the string at the same time they're reading it.
>
> On 12/1/20 10:12 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> Map Nick's list of numbers to a spatiotemporal snapshot of the physical 
>> world.  The dog and the human have both learned how to learn about it.  
>> Whether it took 1 year, 8000 years, or 2.7 billion years sort of doesn’t 
>> matter in the argument except that the new AI needs enough time to perform 
>> experiments to learn the consequences and meaning of different patterns of 
>> numbers.   If the list of numbers describes every possible action that the 
>> AI could take and how that particular path would be recorded, then any given 
>> experiment could in principle be encapsulated in a single set of numbers; it 
>> is just a matter of what cells in the hyperspace the AI decides to look at.

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