I assumed that there will come a time when the AGI has exhausted consuming all available human-collected knowledge and data.
My reasoning for the comment was something like
“Okay, what if AGI happens before we’ve understood the dark matter and dark energy? AGI has incomplete models of these concepts (Assuming that it’s not able to develop a full picture from available data—that may well be the case, but for a placeholder, I’m using dark energy. It could be some other concept we only discover in the year prior to the AGI creation and have relatively fewer data about), and it has a choice to either use existing technology (or create better using existing principles), or carry out research into dark energy and see how it can be harnessed, given reasons to believe that the end-solution would be far more efficient than the currently possible solutions.
There might be types of data that we never bothered capturing which might’ve been useful or even essential for building a robust understanding of certain aspects of nature. It might pursue those data-capturing tasks, which might be bottlenecked by the amount of data needed, the time to collect data, etc (though far less than what humans would require).”
Thank you for sharing the link. I had misunderstood what the point meant, but now I see. My speculation for the original comment was based on a naive understanding. This post you linked is excellent and I’d recommend everyone to give it a read.
I assumed that there will come a time when the AGI has exhausted consuming all available human-collected knowledge and data.
My reasoning for the comment was something like
“Okay, what if AGI happens before we’ve understood the dark matter and dark energy? AGI has incomplete models of these concepts (Assuming that it’s not able to develop a full picture from available data—that may well be the case, but for a placeholder, I’m using dark energy. It could be some other concept we only discover in the year prior to the AGI creation and have relatively fewer data about), and it has a choice to either use existing technology (or create better using existing principles), or carry out research into dark energy and see how it can be harnessed, given reasons to believe that the end-solution would be far more efficient than the currently possible solutions.
There might be types of data that we never bothered capturing which might’ve been useful or even essential for building a robust understanding of certain aspects of nature. It might pursue those data-capturing tasks, which might be bottlenecked by the amount of data needed, the time to collect data, etc (though far less than what humans would require).”
Thank you for sharing the link. I had misunderstood what the point meant, but now I see. My speculation for the original comment was based on a naive understanding. This post you linked is excellent and I’d recommend everyone to give it a read.