Uploaded April 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Is an all-knowing superintelligence possible? The laws of probability say no! No 'propositions' about future events exist because people make sentences about events (they can be called propositions). Before there were people, and before people created language and the concept (the word) 'proposition', among many other concepts which help them communicate, there couldn't have been any (solitary!) intelligence! The same thing with Inmendham's 'superintelligence' (not his!) which would know the 'value' of anything! Individual people have their own values. There is concensus (more or less)among people about what is valuable.
Link to the Amazon for the book "The World Is Built on Probability" by Lev Tarasov:
amazon.com/The-World-Is-Built-Probability/dp/5030011242
Videos I have used:
youtube.com/watch?v=R3j8dh-Pdlw
youtube.com/watch?v=Y4RY_Xhc5m0
Is an all-knowing superintelligence possible? The laws of probability say no! No 'propositions' about future events exist because people make sentences about events (they can be called propositions). Before there were people, and before people created language and the concept (the word) 'proposition', among many other concepts which help them communicate, there couldn't have been any (solitary!) intelligence! The same thing with Inmendham's 'superintelligence' (not his!) which would know the 'value' of anything! Individual people have their own values. There is concensus (more or less)among people about what is valuable.
Link to the Amazon for the book "The World Is Built on Probability" by Lev Tarasov:
amazon.com/The-World-Is-Built-Probability/dp/5030011242
Videos I have used:
youtube.com/watch?v=R3j8dh-Pdlw
youtube.com/watch?v=Y4RY_Xhc5m0
