God Formula
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The story is essentially a sci-fi thriller movie, where the founder tries to create AI from a math perspective similar to induction instead of the more common approach of fitting to data. It's counterintuitive but rather than try to create a general algorithm that adapts to specific cases, the founder wants to start from one case and solve for the rest of the world - ie letting the AI define the rest of world on its own volition. In other words, instead of adapting or being an agent in the world, this algorithm plays God and creates it from scratch. The idea is similar to trying to understand or simulate the current universe by instead creating a new one altogether via man-made blackholes in a lab. It's also similar to what you do in theoretical math where you define hypothetical systems or...[More]