I think this is a good point. I wonder if there are examples were writing a textbook led to key insights.
I think that the data required to figure out the gears of most major human age-related diseases is probably already available, online, today. And I don’t mean that in the sense of “a superintelligent AI could figure it out”; I mean that humans could probably figure it out without any more data than we currently have.
I noticed that I have a vague sense that this is also true for AGI based on human cognition. I wonder if you think that polling a research community on questions like „Do we already know enough to derive X with a lot of smart effort?“ would give a good sense of tractability.
I think this is a good point. I wonder if there are examples were writing a textbook led to key insights.
I noticed that I have a vague sense that this is also true for AGI based on human cognition. I wonder if you think that polling a research community on questions like „Do we already know enough to derive X with a lot of smart effort?“ would give a good sense of tractability.