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.

Blog posts

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

See also

• Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
• Reductionism
• Magic, magical categories
• Lawful intelligence
• Reality is normal
• Free will