>There’s no equivalent in technology. There isn’t some “general-purpose technological substrate” such that you can start with any technological artefact, slightly perturb it, iterate, and continuously reach any other technological artefact. Discontinuous/discrete changes are needed.
It sounds like you’re almost exactly describing neural nets and backpropagation. A general purpose substrate that you slightly perturb to continuously and gradually move towards the desired output. I believe that as we have better ideas for self play, focusing on quality of thought processes over general knowledge, that we’ll see some impressive results. I think we’re already seeing signs of this in the increasing quality of smaller models.
>There’s no equivalent in technology. There isn’t some “general-purpose technological substrate” such that you can start with any technological artefact, slightly perturb it, iterate, and continuously reach any other technological artefact. Discontinuous/discrete changes are needed.
It sounds like you’re almost exactly describing neural nets and backpropagation. A general purpose substrate that you slightly perturb to continuously and gradually move towards the desired output. I believe that as we have better ideas for self play, focusing on quality of thought processes over general knowledge, that we’ll see some impressive results. I think we’re already seeing signs of this in the increasing quality of smaller models.