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Suppose astronomers detect a binary radio signal, an alien message, from a star system many light years away. The message contains a large text dump (conveniently, about GPT-4 training text data sized) composed in an alien language. Let's call it Alienese.[1] Unfortunately we don't understand Alienese. Until recently, it seemed...
A common presupposition seems to be that intelligent systems can be classified on two axes: * Intelligence (low to high) * Generality (narrow to general) For example, AlphaGo is presumably fairly intelligent, but quite narrow, while humans are both quite intelligent and quite general. A natural hypothesis would be that...