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A complex of related ideas having to do with the impossibility of generating useful work from entropy - a position which holds against the ideas that e.g:

  • Our artistic creativity stems from the noisiness of human neurons;
  • Randomized algorithms can exhibit performance inherently superior to deterministic algorithms;
  • The human brain is a chaotic system and this explains its power; non-chaotic systems cannot exhibit intelligence.

Yudkowsky calls this sort of thing 'chaos-worship' and propounds that there are good mathematical and epistemic reasons not to believe in it.

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