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[okok]

Reading into kolmgorov complexity, solomonoff induction and whatnot, i stumbled onto Jürgen Schmidhuber's website. He gave a talk at the 2009 singularity summit, sure one of the best i've seen, and refreshing compared to endless kurzweil iterations.

(full length:

View on Vimeo.

What's your take on the logarithmic compression perspective at the end of the video? (you'd have to watch the long one)

Edited by okok, 22 May 2010 - 01:24 AM.

[Vons]

This guy brings up several thought-provoking points, among them is the interpretation of exponential events. I was recently thinking about a similar thing to what he mentioned, about how our singularity could be just another point of exponential increase in time, and I realized there is something he missed. The entire point of the singularity is to break the cycle of exponential events over time, creating an almost infinite exponentially-exponential curve which has a positive feedback loop. I am quite confident that this day will come soon this century, but when and how I cannot say.

[Zhivko]

Hi there,

I really like this one definition of the singularity.

The entire point of the singularity is to break the cycle of exponential events over time, creating an almost infinite exponentially-exponential curve which has a positive feedback loop.

In order to answer the question whether it is near and how long we will have to wait we need also an answer to this one:
"What is behind the positive feedback loop?''

any ideas to everyone?

[okok]

An analogy worth considering might be Zeno's paradox, which was "solved" with the introduction of limits.