From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 20:09:25 MDT
Nick Hay wrote:
>
> A program of a fixed complexity can write understandable systems (i.e.
> those it can predict fit some specification) of arbitrary complexity
> (the above example works here).
Note that this requires interacting with a complexity-bearing
environment or writing more than one such system. Reason: Any
"complex" system uniquely output by a simpler system acting in a
vacuum, actually has the Kolmogorov complexity of the simpler system.
Kolmogorov complexity in this sense has very little to do with
intelligence.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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