Tim Scarfe: belief

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…Yeah. I mean his work is very much descended from that sort of way of thinking. He defines it in terms of the ability to acquire skills. Which is, I suppose perhaps a more benchmark focused version of Pei's definition. Which makes sense, because Chile was proposing a benchmark in that paper. So perhaps he was looking at each test question as a skill and the ability to acquire it as what it was testing. Which makes a lot of sense. But his formalism, which almost seems an afterthought in that paper, is where you can see much more of Legg and Huttter's influences. It once again uses Kolmogorov complexity. It sort of frames things in the same terms. Even though in that paper, Challet goes on to say that he doesn't think compression is sufficient for intelligence. He was very clear about that in the paper, and then he uses it. So I I think that might be because Charlet Yeah. He describes process, which is the intelligence. And that produces skill programs. So the programs are a compression, but the process which created them is doing something more, maybe? Yeah. I felt like that part was I chose to focus on the test part at that point. I'm like, oh, this isn't the bit that he was really focusing on. I don't know. I'd have to ask him.…

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