[ExI] Google Just Achieved Mathematical AGI

[Jason Resch]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2026, 12:07 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Google Just Achieved Mathematical AGI
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> On Wed, Mar 4, 2026, 4:08 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
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> …  The working assumption is that he died; the alternative is
> that he is not human because he is estimated to own between 750,000
> and 1,100,000 Bitcoins, which were easy to mine in the early days.
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> >…If I recall correctly, there were news reports that the CIA investigated
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> determined the creator was not ill intentioned and so left him alone. So it
> is not a complete mystery and perhaps it will be declassified some day.
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> Jason I have long suspected that Satoshi is a composite character or
> collective pseudonym which likely included our own Hal Finney.
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Yes it seems unlikely any one person had the total expertise to complete
the project in isolation. It required understanding of complex incentive
systems involving many players.

Hal was certainly closely involved with the creator, being the first to
publicly receive bitcoins in the first transaction. But as talented as Hal
is he doesn't fit as the Satoshi who was active on the message boards, who
used Canadian-english spellings.


In that Mersenne group which split off from here, existing from about 1999
> to 2003, we discussed Dr. Irving Matrix and Nicolas Bourbaki, treating them
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I never heard of that group or those people. Who was behind them?


> Although I only met Hal face to face once, he was a very special person,
> an extremely rare combination of smart and kindhearted.
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That is what I have heard. I had only minimal interaction with him through
the everything list in 2007-2008, but he was always kind and incredibly
brilliant.

Here is an example I found that is rater appropriate for today: Hal
speculating about the consciousness of a hypothetical future AI that was
able to read and digest language materials and then comment on what it has
justread -- a future we now live in:
https://groups.google.com/g/everything-list/c/0WF8Qvh5fqw/m/hwWmE4oiTcoJ

Jason

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