(This post uses a more generalized definition of "simulator" than the one used in Simulators. Simulators, as defined here, are functions optimized towards some arbitrary range of inputs, and without requirements on how the function was created. If you need to distinguish between the two definitions, the simulators here can basically just be described as functions that represent some real world process.)

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5 Point Summary (Idea from this article):

Antelligence is emulation accuracy. In other words, when a simulator tries to emulate a different system, its accuracy (the similarity between its outputs and the outputs of the other system) is the same thing as its antelligence. This also makes antelligence relative, meaning that it’s dependent on what is considered the “ideal” output/system.
Antelligence is not defined through agency or being goal driven, and so addresses modern neural networks and simulators like GPT-3/4 and DALL-E much better than Intelligence.
Simulators optimize towards arbitrary ranges over arbitrary inputs, with optimizers being a type of simulator which optimize towards only 1 range over all inputs.
Antelligence is why humans are so successful, since high antelligence relative to the real world allows us to predict the future, letting us act in ways much more intelligent than other creatures.
Artificial simulators are inherently benign (won’t suddenly transform into an agent that tries to kill us all), but powerful and potentially dangerous tools that would only lead to human extinction if we simulate and actively give it the ability to kill us all and/or give it to agents (human or artificial) that want to kill us all, making them equivalent in danger to nuclear weapons (with their strength being determined by their antelligence relative to the real world, as compared to humans).

Eliezer Yudkowsky was the first to define intelligence as Efficient Cross-Domain Optimization, with this definition being the primary one used in discussions over AI and potential AGI’s and ASI’s for years now, along with helping to spur the many discussions over AI alignment. I’m making this article here to offer an ...

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