Also, the fact that human minds (selected out of the list of all possible minds in the multiverse) are almost infinitely small, implies that intelligence may become exponentionally more difficult if not intractable as capacities increase.
It may suggest that hitting a perfectly humanlike mind out of all possible minds is hard (which I’d agree with), but hitting any functional mind would be made easier with more available paths.
If you’re including completely dysfunctional “minds” that can’t do anything in the set of possible minds, I suppose that could pose a larger challenge for finding them using something like random search. Except our search isn’t random; it’s guided by pretty powerful optimizers (gradient descent, obviously, but also human intelligence). Also, random search works weirdly well sometimes, which is evidence against even this version of the idea.
If the universe is really infinite, there should be an infinite number of possible rational minds. Any randomly selected mind from that list should statistically be infinite in size and capabilities.
Also, the fact that human minds (selected out of the list of all possible minds in the multiverse) are almost infinitely small, implies that intelligence may become exponentionally more difficult if not intractable as capacities increase.
How so?
It may suggest that hitting a perfectly humanlike mind out of all possible minds is hard (which I’d agree with), but hitting any functional mind would be made easier with more available paths.
If you’re including completely dysfunctional “minds” that can’t do anything in the set of possible minds, I suppose that could pose a larger challenge for finding them using something like random search. Except our search isn’t random; it’s guided by pretty powerful optimizers (gradient descent, obviously, but also human intelligence). Also, random search works weirdly well sometimes, which is evidence against even this version of the idea.
If the universe is really infinite, there should be an infinite number of possible rational minds. Any randomly selected mind from that list should statistically be infinite in size and capabilities.
not if measure decreases faster than linearly as size increases
[relates this to my non-veganism] Oh no.