Epstein Secrets

r philosopher, Karl Popper, found fault with this idea a century later. Popper was one of those | mentioned who disapprove of truisms. | haven’t read Popper, but gather that he thought it improper to define fitness as potential survival, and then measure it as survival. That objection is close to being un

ntial” has an empirical meaning. Aristotle’s idea that potency precedes and explains act is called causality. Adam Smith’s friend and fellow Scotsman David Hume scarcely doubted causality, but argued correctly (I think) that it cannot be proved either by logic or by experiment. The fittest prove themselves su

in artificial general intelligence (AGI). Here I'll reserve the term “thinking” for processes that can create understanding (explanatory knowledge). Popper’s argument implies that all thinking entities—human or not, biological or artificial—must create such knowledge in fundamentally the same way. Hence

intelligence is not the product of an alien invasion. It is an artifact of a particular human culture and reflects the values of that culture.” 3. “David Hume's striking statement ‘Reason Is, and Ought only to Be, the Slave of the Passions’ was written in 1738 [and] was, of course, meant to apply to human rea

in artificial general intelligence (AGI). Here I'll reserve the term “thinking” for processes that can create understanding (explanatory knowledge). Popper’s argument implies that all thinking entities—human or not, biological or artificial—must create such knowledge in fundamentally the same way. Hence

intelligence is not the product of an alien invasion. It is an artifact of a particular human culture and reflects the values of that culture.” 3. “David Hume's striking statement ‘Reason Is, and Ought only to Be, the Slave of the Passions’ was written in 1738 [and] was, of course, meant to apply to human rea