" A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam, would invent General Relativity as a hypothesis—perhaps not the dominant hypothesis, compared to Newtonian mechanics, but still a hypothesis under direct consideration—by the time it had seen the third frame of a falling apple. It might guess it from the first frame, if it saw the statics of a bent blade of grass."
Ignoring the part where the superAI has managed to make sense of what if was seeing through the webcam, it will absolutely not be able to do what is suggested with the 3 frames of the apple falling (or with the one of the blade of grass). The instrument simply does not have the resolution to allow such a feat. This is a key misunderstanding. This whole sequence is pretty bad tbh.
(the common way to not grok the practical side of science is to say "Singularity!". Every time you say "Singularity", an experimentalist has a stroke. Please think of the experimentalists)
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See That Alien Message, specifically that part:
" A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam, would invent General Relativity as a hypothesis—perhaps not the dominant hypothesis, compared to Newtonian mechanics, but still a hypothesis under direct consideration—by the time it had seen the third frame of a falling apple. It might guess it from the first frame, if it saw the statics of a bent blade of grass."
Ignoring the part where the superAI has managed to make sense of what if was seeing through the webcam, it will absolutely not be able to do what is suggested with the 3 frames of the apple falling (or with the one of the blade of grass). The instrument simply does not have the resolution to allow such a feat. This is a key misunderstanding. This whole sequence is pretty bad tbh.
(the common way to not grok the practical side of science is to say "Singularity!". Every time you say "Singularity", an experimentalist has a stroke. Please think of the experimentalists)