Tag: David Wolpert
Walter Bradley and the Bradley Center
Unfortunately, rather than use AI to enhance our humanity, computational reductionists increasingly use it as a club to beat our humanity.
Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention; But How?
We’re going to need a new philosophy: one that can handle realities the Elizabethans and Victorians could never have imagined.
How Convergent Animal Algorithms Challenge Darwinism
Eric Cassell discuss the No Free Lunch theorems of William Macready and David Wolpert, and the problem of blind searches for everything from Rubik’s cube solutions to the formula for WD-40.
Axe: Why “No Free Lunch” for Darwin?
That there is a design to life is intuitive, but most of us, if challenged on it, would want to be able to defend our intuition persuasively.
Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?
Theorists hope to alleviate a deficiency in Shannon information theory, which dealt only with the structure of a communication, not its semantics.