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Re:Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the developme... by s1dechnl on Sunday February 25, 2018 @10:58AM (#16459497)
[AGI Developer]

I'll instead give you something to consider : * The totality of mathematics is not fully defined. As such, there are can be completely new mathematics that destroys previous conceptions especially as it relates to the limits of computability. Theoretical Limits often reflect one's limited scope of perception. Your limits or the limits someone theorized ages ago aren't necessarily my limits if I find a path beyond them.

Information theory and computational complexity theory are theories... Solving fundamental aspects of intelligence will invalidate a host of theories, create new mathematics, new algorithms, and new theories. Continuing to frame something as ground breaking as an understanding/implementation of intelligence in yester-years theoretical limits is flawed.

Re:Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the developme... by xamuel on Sunday February 25, 2018 @03:57PM (#16461121)
In a phrase like "information theory", "theory" means "body of literature", not "unproven hypothesis". Information theory isn't really something that can be invalidated, no more than the Pythagorean Theorem can be invalidated.