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Do you have a citation? I never heard of Minsky espousing this view. Could you be confusing him with Moravec? (https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/gener

by paviva 6y ago

Do you have a citation? I never heard of Minsky espousing this view. Could you be confusing him with Moravec? (https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1998/SimConEx.98.html https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles...)

simonh 6y ago
Sure, he explains it here. All his interviews on Closer to Truth are worth watching, but then I'm a fan of the show. I don't know if the idea was original to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUbANEalnzc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUbANEalnzc
- Jach 6y ago
  Thanks, I'll also watch it later. It initially reminded me of Tegmark's levels of parallel universes (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302131 http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302131) whose highest is one that assumes mathematical reality is the same as physical reality.
- paviva 6y ago
  Thanks!