That’s why 9 specifies “recursively self-improving”, not “build a better optimizer”, or even recursively improving optimizer. The computer counts for recursively improving, imho, it just needs some help, so it’s not self-improving.
Presumably, if anyone ever solves 9, so did their mom. Which is not in fact intended as a “your mom” joke, but I don’t see any way around it being read that way.
If self-improving intelligence is somwehere on the hierarchy of “better optimizers,” you just have to make better optimizers, and eventually you can make a self-improving optimizer. Easy peasy :P Note that this used the assumption the it’s possible, and requires you to be charitable about interpreting “hierarchy of optimizers.”
That’s why 9 specifies “recursively self-improving”, not “build a better optimizer”, or even recursively improving optimizer. The computer counts for recursively improving, imho, it just needs some help, so it’s not self-improving.
Presumably, if anyone ever solves 9, so did their mom.
Which is not in fact intended as a “your mom” joke, but I don’t see any way around it being read that way.
If self-improving intelligence is somwehere on the hierarchy of “better optimizers,” you just have to make better optimizers, and eventually you can make a self-improving optimizer. Easy peasy :P Note that this used the assumption the it’s possible, and requires you to be charitable about interpreting “hierarchy of optimizers.”