But I don’t think you are doing space colonization. I’d guess you are doing reading/writing on social media, programming, grocery shopping, cooking, … . And I think recursive self-improvement is supposed to work with no experience in space colonization.
Meaning of my comment was “your examples are very weak in proving absense of cross-domain generalization”.
I can buy that there’s a sort of “trajectory of history” that makes use of all domains at once, I just think this is the opposite of what rationalist-empiricists are likely to focus on.
And if we are talking about me, right now I’m doing statistics, physics and signal processing, which seems to be awfully generalizable.
This is precisely the position that I am referring to when I say “the assumption was that the world is mostly homogeneous”. Like physics is generalizable if you think the nature of the world is matter. And you can use energy from the sun to decompose anything into matter, allowing you to command universal assent that everything is matter. But does that mean matter is everything? Does your physics knowledge tell you how to run a company? If not, why say it is “awfully generalizable”?
Space colonization obviously includes cargo trucking, farming, legislation, chip fabbing, law enforcement, and, for appreciators, war.
But I don’t think you are doing space colonization. I’d guess you are doing reading/writing on social media, programming, grocery shopping, cooking, … . And I think recursive self-improvement is supposed to work with no experience in space colonization.
Meaning of my comment was “your examples are very weak in proving absense of cross-domain generalization”.
And if we are talking about me, right now I’m doing statistics, physics and signal processing, which seems to be awfully generalizable.
I can buy that there’s a sort of “trajectory of history” that makes use of all domains at once, I just think this is the opposite of what rationalist-empiricists are likely to focus on.
This is precisely the position that I am referring to when I say “the assumption was that the world is mostly homogeneous”. Like physics is generalizable if you think the nature of the world is matter. And you can use energy from the sun to decompose anything into matter, allowing you to command universal assent that everything is matter. But does that mean matter is everything? Does your physics knowledge tell you how to run a company? If not, why say it is “awfully generalizable”?