Lawful intelligence
From Lesswrongwiki
The startling and counterintuitive notion - contradicting both surface appearances and all Deep Wisdom - that intelligence is a manifestation of Order rather than Chaos. Even creativity and outside-the-box thinking are essentially lawful.
While this is a complete heresy according to the standard religion of Silicon Valley, there are some good mathematical reasons for believing it.
Blog posts
Preliminaries:
- No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws
- A Priori
- Beautiful Math, Expecting Beauty, Is Reality Ugly?, and Beautiful Probability
- Trust in Math
- Trust in Bayes
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition
- Perpetual Motion Beliefs
- Searching for Bayes-Structure
Main sequence:
- Expected Creative Surprises
- Building Something Smarter
- Complexity and Intelligence
- Recognizing Intelligence
- Lawful Creativity
- Lawful Uncertainty
- Selling Nonapples
- The Nature of Logic
- Logical or Connectionist AI? (The correct answer being "Wrong!")
- Failure By Analogy and Failure By Affective Analogy
- Artificial Mysterious Intelligence