Cat Usability Testing (Wolfram's Predictions)
Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 23:40
in Mathematics & Economics
Stephen Wolfram's long-winded (no offense meant) talk at the 2010 H+ Summit was about predicting the future. The material was mostly standard Wolfram stuff but with some focus on future technology. NKS points of view on AI were of course also present. The most interesting theme for me was about human purpose. Here are a few points I extracted: Humans can't predict the future because of computational irreducibility, except for "pockets" or reduceability. I'm not entirely clear as to what defines those pockets. This notion apparently has the premise that human society is a sufficiently complex system so that humans have to run the program to see what happens. read more