Not sure what you mean by complexity here, is this like code size / Kolmogorov complexity? You need some of that to have intelligence at all (the empty program is not intelligent). At some point most of your gains come from compute rather than code size. Though code size can speed things up (e.g. imagine sending a book back to 1000BC, that would speed people up a lot; consider that superintelligence sending us a book would be a bigger speedup)
by “complexify” here it seems you mean something like “develop extended functional organization”, e.g. in brain development throughout evolution. And yeah, that involves dynamics with the environment and internal maintenance (evolution gets feedback from the environment). It seems it has to have a drive to do this which can either be a terminal or instrumental goal, though deriving it from instrumentals seems harder than baking it is as terminal (so I would guess evolution gives animals a terminal goal of developing functional complexity of mental structures etc, or some other drive that isn’t exactly a terminal goal)
see also my post relating optimization daemons to immune systems, it seems evolved organisms develop these; when having more extended functional organization, they protect it with some immune system functional organization.
to be competitive agents, having a “self” seems basically helpful, but might not be the best solution; selfish genes are an alternative, and perhaps extended notions of self can maintain competitiveness.
Not sure what you mean by complexity here, is this like code size / Kolmogorov complexity? You need some of that to have intelligence at all (the empty program is not intelligent). At some point most of your gains come from compute rather than code size. Though code size can speed things up (e.g. imagine sending a book back to 1000BC, that would speed people up a lot; consider that superintelligence sending us a book would be a bigger speedup)
by “complexify” here it seems you mean something like “develop extended functional organization”, e.g. in brain development throughout evolution. And yeah, that involves dynamics with the environment and internal maintenance (evolution gets feedback from the environment). It seems it has to have a drive to do this which can either be a terminal or instrumental goal, though deriving it from instrumentals seems harder than baking it is as terminal (so I would guess evolution gives animals a terminal goal of developing functional complexity of mental structures etc, or some other drive that isn’t exactly a terminal goal)
see also my post relating optimization daemons to immune systems, it seems evolved organisms develop these; when having more extended functional organization, they protect it with some immune system functional organization.
to be competitive agents, having a “self” seems basically helpful, but might not be the best solution; selfish genes are an alternative, and perhaps extended notions of self can maintain competitiveness.