Futility of Chaos

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.

Related concepts

• Mysterious answers
• Lawful intelligence
• Reality is normal
• QM is normal
• Free will

Blog posts

• The Futility of Emergence
• Say Not "Complexity"
• Logical or Connectionist AI
• The "Outside the Box" Box
• The Wonder of Evolution
• Worse Than Random
• The Weighted Majority Algorithm
• Chaotic Inversion
• Artificial Mysterious Intelligence
• Lawful Creativity
• Lawful Uncertainty