https://claude.ai/share/df6fdf28-b73b-48b7-9f5b-01b265e3748c
Prompt: "Provide a counterfactual analysis of a history in which starting with the publication of Solomonoff's papers on inductive inference, it was recognized that approximating the Kolmogorov Complexity of a wide-ranging selection of longitudinal macrosocial measures was recognized by the NSF as the gold standard information criterion for selecting among candidate causal models of macrosocial dynamics, and paid out its funding for sociology only to those who decreased the size of the executable archive of that standardized dataset." Anyone with an information technology background that holds strong political opinions that can read this and still be tolerant of "the experts" to whom they defer, has no idea what information actually is. It's amazing how stupid people are when it comes to this topic. The arguments that inevitably come up time and time again are, when appropriately framed, specious pedantry so transparent that one is hard pressed to describe them as anything but obstructionist fear of truth. "CrimeStop" comes to mind: “Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.” -- George Orwell, 1984 ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6e1019516c8638e9-Mffe3c0b067ef33fb1b25e474 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
