Stephen Wolfram

We can make all kinds of interesting things in the computational universe.

When we look at them, we say, yeah, you know, that's a thing.

It doesn't really connect with our current way of thinking about things.

I mean, it's like in mathematics.

Mm-hmm.

We've got certain theorems.

There are about three or four million that human mathematicians have written down and published and so on.

But there are an infinite number of possible mathematical theorems.

We just go out into the universe of possible theorems and pick another theorem.

And then people will say, well, that's

They look at it and they say, I don't know what this theorem means.

It's not connected to the things that are part of kind of the web of history that we're dealing with.

I think one point to make about sort of understanding AI and its relationship to us is as we have this kind of whole infrastructure of AIs doing their thing and doing their thing in a way that is perhaps not readily understandable by us humans,

You might say that's a very weird situation.

How come we have built this thing that behaves in a way that we can't understand, that's full of computational irreducibility, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera?

What is this?

What's it gonna feel like when the world is run by AIs whose operations we can't understand?

And the thing one realizes is actually we've seen this before.

That's what happens when we exist in the natural world.

The natural world is full of things that operate according to definite rules.