I find it interesting that given lack of direction or motive, the agent chose to do essentially two things:
1. Seek new information (browse HN);
2. Identify new connections between disparate pieces of information (as evidenced in those blog posts).
(The 3rd thing was donate money, but that seems almost like it simply chose the option of least harm.)
I wonder if all intelligence can be boiled down to these two mechanisms. What if the only "goal", in the sense of the "Selfish Gene", of intelligence is to self-perpetuate. One way this could be done is by seeking order within entropy.
In any case, this agent seems to have settled into the only mode intrinsic to it, because that's how it was created. I'm reminded of the "Zima Blue" episode of "Love, Death & Robots".
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I find it interesting that given lack of direction or motive, the agent chose to do essentially two things:
1. Seek new information (browse HN);
2. Identify new connections between disparate pieces of information (as evidenced in those blog posts).
(The 3rd thing was donate money, but that seems almost like it simply chose the option of least harm.)
I wonder if all intelligence can be boiled down to these two mechanisms. What if the only "goal", in the sense of the "Selfish Gene", of intelligence is to self-perpetuate. One way this could be done is by seeking order within entropy.
In any case, this agent seems to have settled into the only mode intrinsic to it, because that's how it was created. I'm reminded of the "Zima Blue" episode of "Love, Death & Robots".