All intelligence is fundamentally search over Turing machines, and anything that happens can be described by Turing machines of various lengths; learning and scaling involve searching over more and longer Turing machines and applying them to specific cases.

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Unidentified Speaker — The Grand Theory of Intelligence – Gwern [IMkqAUsVAfc]

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all intelligence is is search over Turing machines and I think anything that happens can be described by Turing Machines of various lengths and all that we're doing when we're doing learning or when we're doing scaling is that we're searching over more and longer turning machines and we're applying them in specific case

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The Grand Theory of Intelligence – GwernDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:44:56 AM

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