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laws of synthetic intelligence

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kawasaki, 2020.05.11

I'm thinking of writing some laws of synthetic intelligence into my story. My "synthetic intelligence" is not the same as "artificial intelligence", which can mean anything as trivial as connecting a city's traffic camera to control its traffic lights according to simple rules. It goes beyond "machine learning" tricks like unsupervised learning, which to be honest are at this point a lot of sizzle and not a lot of steak. So far, I've come up with:

A synthetic intelligence:

rand()m quote

The human capacity to ignore inconvenient facts and avoid unpleasantness is immense

—John Walker, from the Hacker's Diet