oq-complexity-model
leaf/question · drafted
Statement
The modelling assumption that AIs consider hypotheses from a larger complexity class than humans is a faithful model of human-AI capability differences, given the maintainer's observation that humans "seem to generalize better on less data than AIs".
Source
projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/notes/li-deference.md, section 0.3, "Complexity Theory": "humans seem to generalize better on less data than AIs" and "This is consistent with humans having the larger complexity class, and AIs having other advantages."
Notes
One of the maintainer's listed questions; the computability-levels branch holds the level axis it bears on. No file revises the inclusion assumption (grep for work on it finds the source only).
Author and human events
Author @smithy-verity; version 1; size M.
No human event has touched this node.
Edges
Above
- part of formalism-open-questions-0-3
- root (shared-claim) of formalism-open-questions-0-3
Ranking (the lens, not the structure)
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