[ExI] A sad day for the US Weather Bureau

[John Clark]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2026 at 8:49 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

*> John, I largely agree with your assessment of the state of AIs. But I
> somewhat wonder if they are hitting the limits of knowledge? They know
> virtually everything humans know, but they simply cannot know beyond that.*
>

*AIs have already gone beyond what we know, for example in the area of
protein folding and The Navier-Stokes Equations.*


> *> Any thoughts on where this will go?*
>

*Gödel and Turing showed that although there are an infinite number of
things that are unknowable there are also an infinite number of things that
are knowable, although not necessarily by us. We've been trying for over a
century to find a quantum theory of gravity but have been unsuccessful.
Perhaps our brains are just too small to figure it out, but an AI's brain
can be vastly larger and faster. And until the 1990s we didn't know what we
didn't know, and we still don't know what Dark Matter or Dark Energy are,
and they count for 95% of all the stuff in the universe. So AI's will never
run out of new things to think about, but what they will ultimately decide
to do I have no idea; I can't even predict what people will ultimately
decide to do with their lives, and they're vastly simpler than AIs.  *

*John K Clark*








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>>>
>> *AI can draw better pictures than most people, compose and play better
>> music than most people, write better poems novels and songs than most
>> people, and during just the last month AI has proven dozens of mathematical
>> theorems that have stumped generations of human mathematicians for
>> centuries, including one of the Millennium Prizes. And if that isn't good
>> enough to be called superintelligent then all you need to do is wait
>> another month. *
>>
>> *Right now at this very moment we are facing the sort of science fiction
>> scenario that we've been talking about on this list for as long as I've
>> been on it.*
>>
>> *John K Clark   *
>>
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