Lawful intelligence

The startling and counterintuitive notion - contradicting both surface appearances and all Deep Wisdom - that intelligence is a manifestation of Order rather than Chaos. Even creativity and outside-the-box thinking are essentially lawful.

While this is a complete heresy according to the standard religion of Silicon Valley, there are some good mathematical reasons for believing it.

Blog posts

Preliminaries:

• No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws
• A Priori
• Beautiful Math, Expecting Beauty, Is Reality Ugly?, and Beautiful Probability
• Trust in Math
• Trust in Bayes
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition
• Perpetual Motion Beliefs
• Searching for Bayes-Structure

Main sequence:

• Expected Creative Surprises
• Building Something Smarter
• Complexity and Intelligence
• Recognizing Intelligence
• Lawful Creativity
• Lawful Uncertainty
• Selling Nonapples
• The Nature of Logic
• Logical or Connectionist AI? (The correct answer being "Wrong!")
• Failure By Analogy and Failure By Affective Analogy
• Artificial Mysterious Intelligence

See also

• Futility of chaos
• Universal law
• Optimization process
• Artificial general intelligence