I’m not proposing the AI, I’m noting that the humans seem to use some intuitive notion of complexity to decide what they like. edit: also had the Eliezer ever written a Rubik cube solving AI? Or anything even remotely equal? Easy to pontificate how other people think wrong when you aren’t having to solve anything. The way engineers think, it works for making me a car. The way Eliezer thinks, that works for making him an atheist. Big difference. (I am atheist too, so not a religious stab, and I like Eliezer’s sequences, it’s just that problem solving is something we are barely at all capable of, and adding any extra crap to shoot down the lines of thought which may in fact work does not help you any)
edit: also, the solution: you just do hill climbing with n-move look ahead. As a pre-processing step you may search for sequences that climb the hill out of any condition. It’s a very general problem solving method, hill climbing with move look-ahead. If you want the AI to invent hill climbing, well I know of one example, evolution, and this one does increase some kind of complexity on the line that is leading up to mankind, who invents better hill climbing, even though complexity is not the best solution to ‘reproducing the most’. If the point is making the AI that comes up with the very goal of solving Rubik’s cube, that gets into the AGI land, but using the cube for improving own problem solving skill is the way it is for us. I like to solve cube into some pattern. An alien may not care into what pattern to solve the cube, just as long as he pre-commits on something random, and its reachable.
You may want to check out this post instead; it seems like a much closer response to the ideas in your post.
I’m not proposing the AI, I’m noting that the humans seem to use some intuitive notion of complexity to decide what they like. edit: also had the Eliezer ever written a Rubik cube solving AI? Or anything even remotely equal? Easy to pontificate how other people think wrong when you aren’t having to solve anything. The way engineers think, it works for making me a car. The way Eliezer thinks, that works for making him an atheist. Big difference. (I am atheist too, so not a religious stab, and I like Eliezer’s sequences, it’s just that problem solving is something we are barely at all capable of, and adding any extra crap to shoot down the lines of thought which may in fact work does not help you any)
edit: also, the solution: you just do hill climbing with n-move look ahead. As a pre-processing step you may search for sequences that climb the hill out of any condition. It’s a very general problem solving method, hill climbing with move look-ahead. If you want the AI to invent hill climbing, well I know of one example, evolution, and this one does increase some kind of complexity on the line that is leading up to mankind, who invents better hill climbing, even though complexity is not the best solution to ‘reproducing the most’. If the point is making the AI that comes up with the very goal of solving Rubik’s cube, that gets into the AGI land, but using the cube for improving own problem solving skill is the way it is for us. I like to solve cube into some pattern. An alien may not care into what pattern to solve the cube, just as long as he pre-commits on something random, and its reachable.