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Lawful Intelligence
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Preliminaries:
Main sequence:
See also
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2Eliezer Yudkowsky
2Grognor
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The startling and counterintuitive notion - contradicting both surface appearances and all Deep Wisdom - that intelligence is a manifestation of Order rather than Chaos. Even creativity and outside-the-box thinking are essentially lawful.

While this is a complete heresy according to the standard religion of Silicon Valley, there are some good mathematical reasons for believing it.

Blog posts

Preliminaries:

  • No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws
  • A Priori
  • Beautiful Math, Expecting Beauty, Is Reality Ugly?, and Beautiful Probability
  • Trust in Math
  • Trust in Bayes
  • The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition
  • Perpetual Motion Beliefs
  • Searching for Bayes-Structure

Main sequence:

  • Expected Creative Surprises
  • Building Something Smarter
  • Complexity and Intelligence
  • Recognizing Intelligence
  • Lawful Creativity
  • Lawful Uncertainty
  • Selling Nonapples
  • The Nature of Logic
  • Logical or Connectionist AI? (The correct answer being "Wrong!")
  • Failure By Analogy and Failure By Affective Analogy
  • Artificial Mysterious Intelligence

See also

  • Futility of chaos
  • Universal law
  • Optimization process
  • Artificial general intelligence