Yeah, definitely seems to jive with my perception of how things are discovered / invented. I don’t think all the details wrt to parallels between human accomplishment and the results of his studies have been fleshed out, but it’s definitely an attractive and believable explanation for quite a lot of phenomena.
I’d say the whole idea is not really new. There is some similarity with the idea of local minima. But the way he aggregates all the bits, and try to provide a kind of experimental proof through an AI experiment, is really novel to me.
You should watch that. It’s the most enlightening talk I saw recently.
Yeah, definitely seems to jive with my perception of how things are discovered / invented. I don’t think all the details wrt to parallels between human accomplishment and the results of his studies have been fleshed out, but it’s definitely an attractive and believable explanation for quite a lot of phenomena.
I’d say the whole idea is not really new. There is some similarity with the idea of local minima. But the way he aggregates all the bits, and try to provide a kind of experimental proof through an AI experiment, is really novel to me.