Hutter Prize 1-Level Indirect Influencer Attention Regarding Anthropic's Consciousness Paper

[James Bowery]

This time code of the Moonshots with Peter Diamandis talk show mentions Marcus Hutter and Jurgen Schmidhuber being "20 years" ahead of Anthropic's current paper on their operational definition of "Conscious Thought".  The reference to 2006  is almost certainly the advent of The Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge.

Anthropic's operational definition of "Conscious Thought" will, of course, be up there with "Intelligence" for dispute.  See "Measuring Machine Intelligence" when Hutter's PhD student Shane Legg gave that talk at the Singularity Summit just prior to co-founding DeepMind.

That said, I'm unfamiliar with Anthropic's so-called "J-space" ansatz to operationalizing a definition of "Conscious Thought" and am therefore in no position to attest its relevance to the Hutter Prize.

PS: They commented on what they call the "orthogonality" of AGI intelligence and goals.  This is of course true in Hutter's AIXI top down theory of AGI in the sense that the any agent must make decisions relating not only to what to observe but also how much resource should be devoted to lossless compression (pure science given a dataset like enwik9) vs decompression (technology) toward that agent's goals.

PPS: If anyone has an inside track with these guys -- you might try telling them that  the X-Prize Foundation should be backing the Hutter Prize because: 1) The Hardware Lottery provides justification for the Hutter Prize's reliance on general purpose instruction sets. 2) Scaling laws are merely empirical curves -- not laws of nature. 3) Reliance on "validation test data" can no longer be relied upon in an era of such enormous conflicts of interest over "benchmarks" that people will be suspicious of adversarial leaks. 4) The largest increases in market cap in AI have been coding assistants and no coding assistant has come close to the the kind of skills required to compete for a Hutter Prize.