This is next level exploitation is it not? Paying people to train their own replacement. I’m scared what happens when there starts to be a lot of training data for robots
The goal of physics is to provide a complete causal picture of reality, where from any physical state you can predict what future physical state will arise to some degree of accuracy.
The problem with this is that in order to predict what state a system will end up in, you must predict what state a system *can* end up in, and this is impossible because the range of possible future states is constantly evolving in non-causal ways.
For example, the internet didn’t *cause* eBay, it enabled it. You couldn’t have predicted that eBay would exist before the internet existed, because it wasn’t in the state space.
Furthermore this happens in evolution through exadaptation. The original purpose of the tongue was to eat, not to speak, but having a tongue *enabled* humans to speak and *enabled* natural selection to develop our brains in that manner.
So the state space itself is constantly changing, and every new change creates new enablements. Predicting the future doesn’t just require selecting potential future states from the state space, it also requires predicting the evolution of the state space itself.
If the biosphere isn’t describable, the universe isn’t.