What if we have enough computer power to process all the babel library?
What if we eventually had enough computational power to process the entire Library of Babel?
Not just generate or search pages, but actually analyze the complete space of possibilities.
Imagine giving such a machine a goal instead of asking it a question. For example:
- Find the best cure for a disease.
- Design the most efficient spacecraft.
- Maximize human well-being under a given set of constraints.
- Solve an unsolved mathematical problem.
Rather than reasoning the way we do, it would effectively contemplate every possible solution that exists in the library and select the one that best satisfies the objective.
The interesting part is that intelligence might become less about inventing answers and more about navigating and validating an already complete space of possibilities.
Would such a system qualify as intelligence, or would it simply be the ultimate search algorithm? Would it be fundamentally different from an AGI, or just another path to the same destination?