Saturday, October 16, 2021

The need for free time

 In my experience creativity requires free time. "Duties must be sufficiently light as to leave the scientist plenty of leisure time for playing and thinking."*

* Discovering, Robert Root-Bernstein, Harvard University Press, 1989, page 398. See also, Noncommissioned Work, Burkus and Oster, Journal of Strategic Leadership, 4(1), 2012, page 48.

Friday, October 1, 2021

Specialist AIs

My experiments with societies of A.s.a. H. agents suggests that such AIs should be specialized, both mentally and physically. The question then becomes, how many specialties should there be and what are those specialties. I'm sure the answer depends upon the environment the AIs live in and what they're trying to accomplish, but the question still remains. Are human specialties a useful guide?

Arguing that there will never be a final theory

 I have argued that all knowledge is of an approximate character and always will be.* Further evidence for this is the large set of impossibility theorems: 

Godel's theorems, Tarski's undefinability theorem, Lob's theorem, no free lunch theorems, Campbell's law, Rice's theorem, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Turing undecidability, Chaitin incompleteness, etc.

* See, for example, R. Jones, APS General Meeting, 10 March 2008, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. vol. 53, no. 3, and March 2009, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 54, no. 3, and my blogs of 25 Feb. 2012 and 1 Aug. 2021.