AGI episode of a podcast channel

 

Comment on this podcast about general intelligence:

The human brain has a lot of apparent complexity, but it is like a fractal, simple underlying formulas lie behind the seemingly vast complexity.  It is estimated the design of the brain is less than 20MB of data in the human genome.   There are also lots of things that the brain does that are not needed for general intelligence, you don't need breathing reflex, Westermarck effect mechanisms, mate choice copying mechanisms, etc.   You only need knowledge of the cortical column algorithm, and perhaps a few accompanying structures such as hippocampus and nucleus accumbens.

mention of the stanford philosophy online encyclopedia, a cool online resource for philosophy

 https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

That's the link for the stanford encyclopedia for philosophy.  Stuff like stoicism, determinism, free will, consciousness, qualia, etc are discussed here.  The link is to the table of contents, there is also a search bar for searching for specific topics.

This is why I believe that the future already exists

The block universe all moments existing at once is a possibility some may find frightening while others might delight in it.   It is something explored in the philosophy of time, and the physics of time.   Some say current theories support it while others say there is still room for debate.