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Re81: Recap of Natural Intelligence (Re10-Re13)
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Naturally evolved intelligent entities are the origin of the other kinds.
Rocks and podcasts; guessing and checking; learning separate from intelligence; perception and intelligence; fight, flight and environments; smart things traveling; mental time and space travel; space and time physics; aliens; how vs. what one thinks; the crazies; science's weaknesses, strategic intelligence's strengths; attentional blind spots; care constraints on intelligences; computers don't give a damn; existential holism; volitional necessity; common sense.
Air date: Wednesday, 14th Dec. 2022, 10:00 PM Eastern/US.
If the phenomenon of artificial intelligence, according to Russell & Norvig (2020), is `intelligent agents', and another phenomenon of artificial intelligence, according to Retraice (2022/12/13), is intelligent artifacts, and the phenomenon of strategic intelligence, according to Retraice (2022/12/12), is `intelligence agents' (and perhaps `agencies', government and otherwise), what about naturally evolved intelligence, the origin of it all?
Re10: Living to Guess Another Day^1
On guessing, checking and fighting.
Rocks can't listen to podcasts; we're smart and dumb; guessing and checking answers are powerful uses of intelligence; true things seem to stay true and assert themselves over time; Barlow on guessing as detecting new non-chance patterns in redundant sensory messages to improve predictions; Macphail on the disconnect between learning and intelligence; Barlow on perception being central to intelligence, and an information-theoretic absolute measure of intelligence; IQ; science and logic as guess-checking; Feynman on science as reporting everything and fooling neither yourself nor others; the machine-human easy-hard yin-yang; fight or flight; environments partially determine which actions are intelligent; Darwin was just busy; science is recent, babies are not.
Re11: Travel^2
On where intelligent things can go, and when, and how.
Smart things travel, dumb things just move; the difference is inside the thing; time travel is done mentally; the marshmallow test; time travel is space travel; space and time are quantum and relative and bizarre; mental travel is not hard for intelligent things; Hinton's five-year-old; reflexes and mental travel; essential elements of intelligence.
Re12: Aliens and Trouble^3
On thinking about alien intelligences--real or not, perceived or not.
How one thinks matters more than what one thinks at any given time; reputations and jobs are at risk; the crazies; many or most witnesses are serious, whether or not they're right; science (public hypotheses, assumptions of the uniformity of nature, requirements of reproducibility, etc.) is inadequate for investigating strategically intelligent, evasive entities; `them'; documents, manipulation, evidence; serious consideration vs. acceptance of huge attentional blind spots.
Re13: The Care Factor^4
A constraint on intelligences.
An intelligence might be bound by what it cares about; Haugeland and Frankfurt on intelligences caring; computers don't give a damn; living some kind of life as prerequisite to understanding some kinds of things; existential holism; common sense; defining `care'; logical, causal and `volitional' necessity; care and the unthinkable.
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References
Retraice (2020/11/02). Re10: Living to Guess Another Day. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re10 Retrieved 2nd Nov. 2020.
Retraice (2020/11/04). Re11: Travel. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re11 Retrieved 4th Nov. 2020.
Retraice (2020/11/05). Re12: Alien Troubles. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re12 Retrieved 5th Nov. 2020.
Retraice (2020/11/10). Re13: The Care Factor. retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re13 Retrieved 10th Nov. 2020.
Retraice (2022/12/12). Re79: Recap of Strategic Intelligence (Re1-Re5). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re79 Retrieved 13th Dec. 2022.
Retraice (2022/12/13). Re80: Recap of Artificial Intelligence (Re6-Re9). retraice.com.
https://www.retraice.com/segments/re80 Retrieved 14th Dec. 2022.
Russell, S., & Norvig, P. (2020). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Pearson, 4th ed. ISBN: 978-0134610993. Searches:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0134610993
https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0134610993
https://lccn.loc.gov/2019047498
Footnotes
^1 Retraice (2020/11/02). ^2 Retraice (2020/11/04). ^3 Retraice (2020/11/05). ^4 Retraice (2020/11/10).
