In the example of curing cancer, your computational model of the universe would need to include a complete model of every molecule of every cell in the human body, and how it interacts under every possible set of conditions. The simpler you make the model, the more you risk cutting off all of the good solutions with your assumptions (or accidentally creation false solutions due to your shortcuts). And that’s just for medical questions.
I don’t think it’s going to be possible for an unaided human to construct a model like that for a very long time, and possibly not ever.
Indeed (see my comment on the problem with simplified model being unsolved).
However, it’s a different kind of problem to standard FAI (it’s “simply” a question of getting a precise enough model, and not a philosophically open problem), and there are certainly simpler versions that are tractable.
But that might be quite a lot of detail!
In the example of curing cancer, your computational model of the universe would need to include a complete model of every molecule of every cell in the human body, and how it interacts under every possible set of conditions. The simpler you make the model, the more you risk cutting off all of the good solutions with your assumptions (or accidentally creation false solutions due to your shortcuts). And that’s just for medical questions.
I don’t think it’s going to be possible for an unaided human to construct a model like that for a very long time, and possibly not ever.
Indeed (see my comment on the problem with simplified model being unsolved).
However, it’s a different kind of problem to standard FAI (it’s “simply” a question of getting a precise enough model, and not a philosophically open problem), and there are certainly simpler versions that are tractable.